The Last Battle Analysis

Death can be seen as a positive aspect of one life or a negative aspect, but according to christian beliefs and morals, it is a negative aspect when supported and analyzed with the Bible, Bioethics, and The Last Battle. The Bible provides us with key ideas to think about such as the idea of who gave us the gift of living and what makes us value it so much. The Bible in theory tries to help us capture the the image that death is meant to be natural in whenever length of time it needs, since in theory time is absurd. Bioethics teaches us that death makes it harder for god to look at you as human because you are rejecting life. This books also explains that as a human you are given immense amounts of freedom but with that freedom you have to look out for yourself and other with the decisions you make. The Last Battle helps us see death in two lights through the character Shift. Shift ultimately destroys the the precious life of others and manipulates the outcome to achieve power for himself. This shows people's’ selfish side using

death to better their own lives. In the end, we see Shift die himself, a negative consequences that had to be done in order to understand killing is unacceptable. These three texts give us similar beliefs on death which tie into the moral issue of suicide. Suicide is morally wrong because it goes against religious customs of being catholic: to love yourself. Growing up as a catholic I have learned to trust God in the life and journey he gives me becuase it is said that he will not let you be tempted beyond what you bare.

Outline:
The Bible outlines death as a negative aspect of life because God gave us the precious gift of life and we should value life to its fullest length because everyone is unique.
“Haven't you yet learned that your body is the home of the Holy Spirit God gave you, and that he lives within you? Your own body does not belong to you. For God has bought you with a great price. So use every part of your body to give glory back to God because he owns it.”(1st Corinthians 6:19-20)
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” (Luke 12:6-7)
“"I came naked from my mother's womb," he said, "and I shall have nothing when I die. The Lord gave me everything I had, and they were his to take away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." (Job 1:21)
Bioethics helps support the idea that death is a negative aspect of life because it goes against God's view of everyone as human as well as correlates directly with your freedom and people in your surrounding.
“Christians have held that suicide is morally wrong because they have seen in it a contradiction of our nature as creatures, an unwillingness to receive life moment by moment from the hand of god..”( Bioethics 58).
“Within the story of my life I have the relative freedom of a creature, but it is not simply “my” life to do with as I please. I am able to end it, of course, but am not free to do so without risking something as important to my nature as freedom: namely, the sense of myself as one who always exists in relation to god”( Bioethics 60).
“For Christians, each person's life is a divine gift and trust, taken up into god's own eternal life in jesus, to be squared and respected in others and oneself” (Bioethics 64).

The Last Battle develops the idea of death being a negative aspect of life through the character Shift.

Through the character Shift(Monkey/Ape), we see him inflicted death on others as well as himself and the negative outcomes that come about through death.

“Then the Cat was to come out and say he'd seen their beastly Tashlan and pretend to be frightened so as to scare the other Animals. But what Shift never guessed was that the real Tash would turn up; so Ginger came out really frightened. And after that, Shift would send in anyone he wanted to get rid of and the sentry would kill them”( C.S Lewis 726)

In the end he had no problem murdering the animals and selling them into slavery to increase his own wealth and power

“"After that," said Edmund, "Someone flung a monkey through the door. And Tash was there again. My sister is so tender-hearted she doesn't like to tell you that Tash made one peck and the Monkey was gone” ( C.S Lewis

727)
Shift met his end when he was thrown into the stable by Tirian, where Tash ate him
A specific instance of death that represents a negative aspect of life is Suicide. In reading “The sin of suicide”, I affirm my beliefs that suicide is wrong/bad because it does against my catholic views and rejects god in are life as well as his trust.
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/the-sin-of-suicide.html
“Suicide violates a genuine love for oneself and one's neighbor — family, friends, neighbors, and even acquaintances” (Catholic Education resource center 1).
“To commit suicide is to reject His "lordship" in our life” (Catholic Education resource center 1).
“We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of" (Catholic Education resource center 1).