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Comparing Hamlet 'And Life Itself Memoir'

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When you lose a loved one or a friend very dear to you, you are filled and over come with grief. Dealing with life without the one thing you know can be a big change in life. There really is no way to deal with grief, everyone processes it differently and there is no right or wrong. I also feel that there is no value on a human beings no amount of money can take the value of a person’s value to society. Hamlet and Roger Ebert show their different views on how life is and what it means to them.

Roger Ebert takes the idea of death and makes it into a part of life and something not to scared of. “Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.” – Roger Ebert (Life Itself Memoir). As Roger Ebert deals with thyroid cancer he always held his head high and always thought of the best even though the outcome would not be the best. “To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.” ― Roger Ebert, (Life Itself Memoir). Ebert made his life as happy as it could be until he passed in April 4, 2013 and left a beautiful reputation behind. …show more content…

“To die:—to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” ( Act III, scene1, line 60). Hamlet talked about death in a horrible manor because people wouldn’t let him grief he talked about it a disease and was not suppose to happen that people should live forever. This is an example of how many people deal with the grieving process they may cry , get angry, or accept it but in Hamlets case he rejects it and was

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