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An 8 page
paper which examines conditions of a life well lived and death as seen by Sherwin
Nuland in “How We Die” and the works of Plato relating to Socrates’ death (Euthyphro,
Crito, and Apology). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAnuland.rtf
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another. We all face the reality that we will one day die, and most of us will lose one or more loved ones to death. Everyone seems to have a
different way of dealing with this reality because, as Sherwiin Nuland indicates in his work "How We Die," "Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and
so is every death. The uniqueness of each of us extends even to the way we die" (3). The following paper examines Nulands perspectives concerning a good life and a
good death, and then discusses the perspectives of Socrates as presented by Plato in Euthyphro, Crito, and Apology. Nuland One of the most important truths presented by Nuland involves
the fact that "Thousands of tomes have been composed about death, but few of them, the author notes, are by those who see the experience most often and up close:
physicians and nurses" (Elson 66). He illustrates, first off, that most people will know one or two people perhaps who die. And, most of those people will not actually ever
be present when an individual actually dies, for most people die in a hospital or a home of some sort. This sort of knowledge presents us with the importance
of death, as well as the mystery of death. This establishes a foundation from which we can learn, especially considering that Nuland has been present during many deaths. And, in
his examination of death he illustrates how, as mentioned in the introduction, death is different for every individual. One of these individuals was the first person that Nuland saw
die. It was his first patient and "he describes his first professional encounter with the phenomenon. As a third-year medical student, he was checking on a 52-year-old male who had
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