... as the pain and suffering that Ilych endured. Tolstoy's eccentric writing style about death was very unusual to writers of his time. Nevertheless, the story of the death of Ivan Ilych is in no way ineffectual. In the story "The Death of Ivan Ilych" upon Peter Ivanovich's viewing of the body, the speaker begins to give a brief description of what Ivanovich sees. He opens up by saying "The dead man lay ... with God. However, when someone finds out they are sickly or about to die they are willing to do and pay anything to continue living. In "The Death of Ivan Ilych," Tolstoy's motive was ...

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