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Death In Ayn Rand's Slaughterhouse Five

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After making this book I don’t feel the slightest bit more comfortable with the concept of death. If anything, this book has caused my aversion towards my own death to grow. However, I believe that this book has allowed me to become more accepting of other people’s death. It was Slaughterhouse Five, in particular, that helped me the most. The idea that everything happens at once allows the dead to live on in the past, even though they don’t have a future.
In spite of this revelation, I am still left with questions about this topic. What’s the point of life? We spend our childhood and teen years in school to prepare us for college. We spend our college years preparing for the workforce. We spend our adult years earning money to support ourselves
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