Death
What do we define death as? Well of course, doctors may conclude that death is the lack of brain activity, completely brain dead. But, that takes it too literal. The brain dies, the body dies. But, when does a person die? When do we really leave ourselves, our body left to become a shell? Is it really when we lose all brain activity? Is that the only time we lose ourselves? No. Of course it isn't. A man is dead once he loses himself. Loses sight in what he is, or what he should do. A man who has lost touch with his ethics, to become a monster, is dead. How many times can one look into the eyes of a man and say he is dead, to see the life be pulled from their existence. I say, I see monsters who have lost themselves with this same look. Could this not be called death? Does a man who has committed unspeakable acts of cruelty deserve the label of living? Or does he exist only as a shell? A man who has lost all family, is not known to be alive, does he exist? To call him living wou...