Death is one of the most taboo topics that there
is. It is looked at as something to be depressed about and the low point
of life, as it is the end. However, Dudley Clendinen offers a somewhat
different perspective on the issue. With Lou Gehrig’s disease showing him
that death is close he chooses to embrace that fact and just let his life
finish gracefully. The aging journalist had dealt with , and done much in
his short life. He had worked everywhere from newspapers to universities
to even writing books on his own. He had also dealt with some things most
people don’t have to such as alcoholism and his homosexuality, but his
inability to be ignorant to his coming death gave him experience like nothing
else. This chance to know what was coming allowed him to accept death and
see things in it that not many others can. The fact that he knew that he
would die soon allowed him to think of many things that his readers, who still
probably have decades on their lives, never would accept. He tries to get
across that death should not be something taboo but something that is just as
interesting as any other subject. One way that he tries to do this is by
his general tone throughout the essay. Even in something as depressing as
his death he is able to be thankful and in general cheery about the whole
situation. This point is that death is not
something that should be so depressing. It should not be the topic that
is never discussed because it will appear for everyone and there is no point in
dragging it out. When the time has come it has come, and in the eyes of
the grim wisdom that can be see no other ways is gained.
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