This is for a project again please no profane or crude language.
Thank you
2006-10-05 08:23:56 · 9 answers · asked by luvablechic4eva 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Top Ten Most Ironic Celebrity Deaths
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10. Ellen DeGeneres: Suffocates in the closet.
9. Susan Lucci: Trips and breaks her neck while running up steps to accept an Emmy.
8. Jenny McCarthy: Struck by a random thought.
7. Frank Sinatra: Killed by Stranglers in the Night.
6. RuPaul: Prostate cancer.
5. O.J. Simpson: Murdered by the "real killer" in an apparent suicide.
4. Madonna: Exposure.
3. Unabomber: Mail bomb returned due to "insufficient postage."
2. Al Gore: Dutch Elm Disease.
and the *Predicted* NUMBER ONE MOST IRONIC CELEBRITY DEATH IS...
1. Bill Gates: Falls out of a Window.
2006-10-05 08:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll take a stab at it, not sure if this is right.
People are afraid of death and do everything they can to prevent it. In the end though, everyone dies so it is pointless to even worry about it in the first place.
A lot of people won't take risks like sky diving, scuba diving, etc. because they fear death. So they never really live their life to their full potential when infact the very thing they fear will inevitably happen anyway.
2006-10-05 15:35:52 · answer #2 · answered by true_skillzz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Irony is the use of words to express the opposite of what one really means. Now how would death be "ironic"? Is it somehow opposite what one really means relative to it? Unlikely. Is death ironic? Only if it is opposite of what one really thinks it to be. Does anyone think of death as opposite what it is? What is it? An ending, or termination of life. In what way is a termination opposite what one would expect it to be?
Even in the case of reincarnation, death is not an irony, since ones physical body does in fact die. That ones Soul and MIND are withdrawn from life and continue is not ironic except to someone ignorant of the process. In which case it might appear to be ironic, but again only to someone who was ignorant of the process.
So, it would sound as though your "project" is specious, a joke, or the assignment is flawed as to use of the term "irony" or "ironic". Unless the assignment is to answer whether or not death is ironic? it is not, except to those whose ignorance of the process of death would cause them to imagine death to be other than it is. In this case it is not death that is ironic, but the mistaken imagining of those that would see it as other than it is. Their thoughts about death are ironic, but the fact that irony is found in their thoughts about death does not apply to death itself.
So what is the irony of death? There is none.
2006-10-05 15:57:14 · answer #3 · answered by docjp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it is because although we know were are going to die, we still live as if we do not believe it will happen to us. When it does happen, it may be ironic because we were not prepared, but we've known for our whole lives that it was coming.
2006-10-05 15:38:35 · answer #4 · answered by jeshzisd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
death is not ironic. people who feel it is are subject to the irony in their own life, which depends on how you live it.
2006-10-05 15:37:29 · answer #5 · answered by jaensor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are people so obsessed with death? or reincarnation?
NOW is the important thing. NOW
Worry about death another time
2006-10-05 15:27:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
death is the equalizer
poor, rich, smart, stupid, black, white,straight, gay
it doesn't matter in the end we all rot
death cannot be bought off or bargined with-death is never closed
2006-10-05 15:39:24 · answer #7 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has to die. Why do you consider it ironic?
2006-10-05 15:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's inevitable and comes when you least expect it
2006-10-05 15:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋