I have to write an essay.. which is better living with shame or dying with honor&provide a real life situation

Question

Please provide some famouse incident that I can refer to in my essay...Thanks a lot!!!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I'd say that dying with honor is better. A great example of this is Patrick Henry's famous statement "Give me liberty or give me death!" He felt that if he and his fellow revolutionaries in the American Revolution weren't allowed to have freedom, their lives were worth living. He would take the chance of death to achieve freedom. He never actually did die while fighting for freedom, though. He died after the war was already over, in 1799. But it's a good example of how honor was more important than life.

Answer 3

I have to say, this is a great topic. Hard to answer the question though. If someone walked up to me right now and said you have two choices, walk the rest of your life "marked" in a terribly negative way so that I will be shamed every where I go or die and be honored, I don't know what I would choose. Good luck with this one, sorry I wasn't more help!!!!!

Answer 4

Well this is a silly choice.. you know everyone is going to say die with honor. Why not stand up and be the only one in your class to say live with shame. You know that not a single person in the class is going to pick this so it's going to take some time to really come up with a strong argument for it. What would be the premise? Well for one I would say that not everyone who dies with honor, really dies with honor. There are many people who believe that honor is something sacred and something special. However, if you are terrorist and you die with honor believing in your holy scriptures and you kill hundreds of innocent people then you have only died in honor for a group of people. You haven't died in honor for the world... you believe that your god is better than everyone elses and therefore you have the right to kill others. The famous incident here is 9/11. Do you think that America or other countries are not like this? Ofcourse we are, we all think we should die with honor for our beliefs. How about the poverty stricken soldiers who sign up for a war to fight and die with honor for their country only to find out that their politicians were misleading. Only to find out that there were no weapons of mass destruction. Ofcourse you can't realize this after you die, but your family could, and they could be very angered by this. Now suppose you were the shameful coward who ran off to Canada to dodge a draft or avoided joining a war. Maybe your father was once a soldier in the past and he fought in a war that actually had some meaning like WWII and now you dodged the draft to fight this current war. Maybe you feel shameful for not joining the war for the rest of your life, but at least you are alive. And now that you are alive and living in shame, years pass, and suddenly people start talking about the war as a mistake as a shameful event. Now you realize that you were right all along and there was no reason to feel shameful for avoiding the war! Now you are so thankful you are alive and that you didn't die "with honor" in a war that is now seen as meaningless. (For example Vietnam 10 years of war that was pointless! the soldiers were greeted by people who spit on them because there was such hatred for their participation and they didn't even do anything! all they were doing was serving.... with honor) It will be difficult to write your essay as living with shame, but you can most definitely argue the side of dying with honor and i think if you can do it you will feel great about it. I did this once with a capital punishment essay, i was the only one in the class to be against it and I proved to be the best essay of the class.

Answer 5

What kind of a warped essay is that? If you pick the first one, you're a loser, if you pick the second one, you are in love with death.

Pick "living with shame" and pick Ted Kennedy for Chappaquidick, and how he's still a senator and drawing a rich man's pension for life. See what your teacher says about that one.

Answer 6

Living with Shame is like living but dead. You can't live life to the fullest because your life is full of despair, its not worth living. While Dying with Honour means you have made an impact in this world, you lived for maybe a short life or long but dying with honour is like winning a prize. Your with God, and your blessed with eternal life. Now thats worth dying for.

sorry..no example but i tried.=)

Answer 7

A simple example is the Japanese Samurai. If they shamed themselves, suicide was a way to retain their families honor. They considered living with shame to be absolutely unbearable and thought death with honor to be a far better option.

Answer 8

People who go out and have fun drinking and sleeping around have a better life than those who stay home and never do anything. Who's life would be the basis for a book?
Take Lindsey Lohan for instance, she's having a blast, whereas the Olson twins are has-beens.

Answer 9

Those that died with honor unfortunately cannot come back to tell us if they would have prefered the latter. Seriously, the answer probably is best defined or understood based upon the culture that one has been raised in.

Answer 10

If you have read the Scarlet Letter you can use that. That's an example of living with shame.