{"id":38,"date":"2024-03-26T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/?p=38"},"modified":"2024-03-26T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:03:23","slug":"death-with-interruptions-if-we-dont-start-dying-again-we-have-no-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/2024\/03\/26\/death-with-interruptions-if-we-dont-start-dying-again-we-have-no-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Death with interruptions: If we don\u2019t start dying again we have no future"},"content":{"rendered":"

This book was really interesting to me in that it brought up conversations on how death is inherently linked to politics and that it brings value to the policies of politics. Saramago shows that death is what brings value as he highlights how starting with the queen evading her death led to bringing monarchy to its limits. I did think however the book did drag on when the author wrote about the \u201cmaphia\u201d and how it would be a sort of solution to this new world. I didn\u2019t like that the \u201cmaphia\u201d had moments where they would cross the border as it was a little repetitive and made the book drag on. However I did find it curious that even with this huge new issue, the government still found a way to instill control using the \u201cmaphia\u201d to contain the growing population. But it did get better later with the female persona that death took on. I think it is interesting the author brought into the aspect that death has feelings of remorse and rethinks that making people immortal was not the right choice. In terms of the greater themes of the book I think it is really relevant in whose life matters, who deserves rights and when a nation thinks it is important to intervene to prevent the possibility of death. People facing poverty for instance are seen as less important and are not taken care of as much in Canada in terms of benefits. As well to an extent even if we don\u2019t have immortality, the average lifespan in wealthy countries has increased and people live longer. In countries like Japan there’s an old age epidemic. Like in the book where hospitals are being filled up, the same happens in Canada, where people struggle to get healthcare in time because of high demand. Moving on I liked the concept of the week long warning to get your affairs in order. I thought it was such a simplistic solution on the leaders’ part to solve the immortality issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My question for the rest of the class is what would you do in this situation, would you relax with your life more and not be worried about all of life’s stressors or would you take advantage of the new found time you have and accomplish all you can (without the possibility the maphia would get rid of you and you could do whatever you wanted)?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book was really interesting to me in that it brought up conversations on how death is inherently linked to politics and that it brings value to the policies of politics. Saramago shows that death is what brings value as he highlights how starting with the queen evading her death led to bringing monarchy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,18,17],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-interruptions","tag-without"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nazblogspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}