2nd Class Discussion

            I found todays discussion sad, but somewhat true.  We keep people alive longer than they should be kept alive because we do not want to see them go.  They are a burden to us as we may keep someone on life support using tons of money.  However, I would still do this for any of my family or friends.  It may be a burden, but I would not want to see them go.  It may be bad for society to keep them alive for this long, but when it is a family member or friend we disregard the whole world and only think about ourselves.  Also, people don’t want to die because there is nothing left for them after they die.  They work all their life for money, so they can finally retire, and in the end they just die.  It is scary to think that after you work all your life for something, you just die and then you’re gone.  This is brought up on page three of the book when the narrator says, “last year a distant relation left me six thousand roubles in his will I immediately retired from the service and settled down in my corner,” (page 3).  This shows that the narrator worked until he had enough money to retire and settle down “underground” for the rest of his life.