Krakauer said that
when he was young, “personal mortality – the idea of (his) own death – was
still largely outside of (his) conceptual grasp”. What does this mean? How do
you think he grappled with his own personal mortality?
All humans are mortal, therefore we die when our time comes. When people are younger, they try to imagine what death would be like, but they can't because they can't fully grasp the reality of leaving the world they live in for the next. Also, this generation would think of death differently because of television; also, they probably couldn't bare to lose their iPhone.
I totally agree with you. I think its scary and we block it out and i think we cant grasp it just because its soo hard to imagine that someday we will die.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on it. I feel too, at a young age we cannot grasp that emotion of death and how we will die. I can't even picture my own death but for Chris, when he was about to die, I think he saw the light and knew it was time to go.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying, but I think theres also another view on it. When we are younger, we choose not to think about death because we think it's so far away. Young people focus on living their lives. It is difficult to imagine dying when you're not faced with a life-threatening situation.
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