Death: A Natural occurance

The movie The Hit exemplifies how multiple individuals dealt with their own deaths through rational reasoning. The movie revealed that there are other human forces besides reason that determine how one approaches death. For example, one of the characters had ten years to come to terms with his own mortality, and even that proved not to be enough time for Willie in the end. While Willie was kidnapped he had multiple chances to escape, but he never did. He remained stoic throughout the entire film, until the final moments of his

life, when he realized that he was really going to die. Willie was a stoic person because he was seemingly indifferent to and unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, and pain. He accepted all occurrences that he faced as the unavoidable result of divine will or of the natural order. He basically assisted in his own death when he repaired the car that would eventually lead him to death. Another scene where he could have escaped was when he was appreciating nature by admiring the waterfall while standing on the hilltop, while Myron was sleeping. He easily could have vanished into the sunset, but figured that because his time was coming, he should not cheat death and let it come naturally. Even right before he dies, he remained calm and was able to sleep peacefully in the car, even though he knew that his days were numbered. From that point on, his kidnappers, Myron and Braddock looked at him with awe because they assumed that he had death figured out.

Epictetus also believed that death is a natural part of our existence. For example, in order to prolong the life cycle, it is prominent that death occurs so that new life can inhabit the earth. Also, if people were to never die or have an end of their life then the world would either become overpopulated or run out of natural resources. If life was to go on everlastingly, then I know that I would never get anything accomplished because I would no longer acknowledge time, I would continue to put things off another day. Further, death is inevitable, the only thing to do is to come to terms with it and accept it and “make it daily before your eyes”(p.5) so that when it does take place you will think of the situation as something natural that occurred, rather t

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