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Fear, a concept that everyone has made contact with at least some point in our lives, whether it be through insectophobia, nyctophobia, or acrophobia, the emotion of fear is an emotion everyone has to come to terms with. Yet so many of us take for granted all the necessities we receive every day such as food and water while others need to work immense hours a day or trek an absurd amount of miles to obtain these resources just to survive, fearing that they still won’t have enough. Even so, there is one thing that we, as humans, always overlook until it’s creeping right around the corner: death. Although this may be true, receiving the fear of death does bear some fruit. For example, if someone were to escape death, they will most likely value life more highly. To put it in another way, This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, written by Tadeusz Borowski, …show more content…

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