End of Life
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Very few things are certain in life. There are always unpredicted events, injuries, and sadness. Throughout life's unpredictable course, however, there will always be an end point. There will always be a destination that our lives' paths lead to. One thing that every living being can be certain of is that his life will end--sooner or later. Death claims all of us eventually, but is death really as almighty as we typically believe it to be? In her poem "On Death, without Exaggeration," Wislawa Szymborska shows her reader that death is in fact much more trivial than humans characteristically think. Szymborska presents many examples that clearly illustrate death as not only less than perfect in its duties, but almost incompetent as well. She explains how death is simply a lesser part of life, and as such, it is not deserving of the respect it is usually given.
Most of Szymborska's argument that death is exaggerated in our perspectives comes from logical appeals...