Preview

Cheating Death Monologue

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
624 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Cheating Death Monologue
Everyone knows the term "cheating death": it's when you get to escape the ending of your life, or the cruelness of how it will end or just the terror itself it carries. But everyone knows that Death will eventually catch up to you. Some people can evade it for a long period of time while others may not have the best of luck. I cheated Death once, and it hasn't caught up to me... yet. Before I die; before I'm caught, I want people to know his story. Yes, his story, not mine. This isn't about me. It's about the one young man that will live a thousand lifetimes more than me. I will die soon and so will my story. His will just fade away to the point where no one will remember. So to keep his story alive, I will tell you everything he told me. As I said before, I, along with few others, may have cheated Death, but what if Death cheats you? Then what? What happens if Death gets the better of you in the end?

...
…show more content…
Up in the north of Washington, a young man around the age of 19 named Lyle fell ill to Acute Myeloid Leukemia. A cancer that works at a dangerously fast pace and affects the blood in the body. He did not have long to live. Hearing the constant sorrows of his family, he begged for mercy from God. He pleaded and cried out to at least prolong his life a little longer. He wanted to be able to stay with his family; to relive his life and make every second count. However, that was never to be...

A month or so later, the young man was on the verge of death. Lyle passed in and out of consciousness one night. He tried so hard to stay alive and not breathe his last breath. Losing energy, he fell prey to his killer. Well,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Quiet Kill Monologue

    • 307 Words
    • 2 Pages

    No good for loot-hiding—but we see one house with no lights on. Hmmm—should we ‘visit’ it? We decide ‘no’ and drove away. After some conversation, we decide to hide the loot in my garage underneath my ride mower. Lawn mowing season is still 2 months away: the stuff will be safe and I’ll check it every once-in-a-while.”…

    • 307 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Almost every, body system, was affected by the conditions that this man had to undergo. His body was loaded up on plenty of body fat. This allowed him to ration his resources and maintain as much of his energy as possible. His body assumingly ran out of its primary fuel source quickly. After this it had to go to its fat cells…

    • 422 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Scarlet Letter Monologue

    • 1563 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Once upon a time, there was a small town called Everbloom. In the, dense, green, woods that bordered that town lived a fiery “orphan” girl named Scarlet. The 17 year old had blazing red hair, ash grey eyes and olive skin that, from being in the woods most of her life, faded to relatively pale. She was known to be mysterious, but really she was just like any other anti-social teen. Well, sorta.…

    • 1563 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    According to the National Cancer Institute, “In 2015, an estimated 1,658,370 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States” (“Cancer Statistics”). What if one of those cases was your mother? Husband? Grandson? What if more horrifically, it was all three? For Mary Kenyon, that devastating thought became a reality. In just three brief years, she lost her mother, husband, and grandson. All three of them battled cancer, and two of the three died from the disease. Through strength, resilience, and a whole lot of faith, Mary overcame grief and shows true heroism by inspiring people and helping them defeat the same obstacles she faced.…

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Piecing the information together he began to think to himself. So if this was my fathers and he’s dead, this dumb book might actually be telling the truth. Starting to hyperventilate he grabbed chunks of dead grass from the ground and began throwing them in every direction. Stress began to overtake his body as he thought of all the possible ways to…

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Satsugai Monologue

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Satsugai Matsuo-sensei stood over his lifeless body and bellowed, “What have you done!?” I didn't mean to kill him, he kind of just got in the way. He was running from me so I was chasing him. Then he just suddenly stopped, I think.…

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Claire Mameli The differences in treatment outcomes due to the amount of hope a patient held in “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness,” was a perspective I had not yet ruminated. The author, Dr. Groopman, retold the stories of multiple patients suffering from cancer, each showing that hope can have a positive outcome on treatment. This account has shown me that death is inherently a part of life, but by instilling genuine hope in a patient and their family, their remaining days can be affected positively. One of Dr. Groopman’s patients in whom this outcome occurred was with Barbara, where she accepted her condition but never yielded.…

    • 689 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Norman Bowker

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages

    of his boos, named “The lives of the dead”, he said “But this too is true: stories…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Scarlet Letter Monologue

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “Rosa,” Aries groaned, “The bullet. The knife…” “Aries, I’m so sorry! My poor beast, my poor prince! My friend! You have to stay alive, please!…

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Blood Killer Monologue

    • 1220 Words
    • 5 Pages

    It’s been three years since my sister’s death and I’m still no closer to finding out what happen to her than I was on the first day I arrived in Atlanta. I took it hard when I find out she was dead. I should have been here. I should have never let her come here alone, but she was her own person and no one could stop her from doing what she wanted. That’s…

    • 1220 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Lupus Monologue

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “You have Lupus,” my Rheumatologist said. I left the doctor’s office heartbroken by the idea of knowing that this revelation of this disease would keep me from swimming in upcoming competitions. Being diagnosed with Lupus meant I would never be able to swim ever again due to extreme photosensitivity that could lead to rashes and internal organ damage. I was always known as the girl that would swim so frequently that everyone joked that my personal perfume was chlorine. Swimming was the one thing that I was naturally good at…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Kille Sam Monologue

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I never would have guessed that I'd start my summer by burying my best friend. I guess your life really can change in the blink of an eye but here I am, getting ready for a funeral I never thought I would have to attend. I'll never forget that night. His mom called me to deliver the terrible news screaming and crying. Her baby crashed into tree on the side of the road and was dead.…

    • 731 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Despite living a sheltered life with relatively low risk, Eudora Welty has experienced great loss and pain in her life. In 1931, leukemia claimed her father’s life. When her father lay there in pain and agony, she stood there watching, helpless to stop the pain. Welty watched as her mother tried to save her father’s life with a blood transfusion. She witnessed the blood transfusion go horribly wrong, and her father die before her very eyes. She lived through seeing her mother become frail and weak with age, “lying helpless and nearly blind” (52). In her long life, Welty has witnessed all of these tragic events happen to the people she loved and had to learn to cope.…

    • 1216 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Assisted Dying Ethics

    • 747 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Percy Bridgman, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, shot himself to escape the final stages of terminal cancer. He left a note, echoing a strong message: “It is not decent for society to make a man do this to himself. Probably this is the last day I will be able to do it myself,” (Engdahl). TRANSITION Ill with lung cancer and severe arthritis, among other ailments, Poet Al Purdy seeked help in ending his suffering. “Every day is agonizing, I’m fed up with dying slowly,” he confessed. Over the course of a year, John Hofsess and Al Purdy discussed every detail of assisted suicide. Purdy would eventually entrust Hofsess with his death—as one would entrust a physician. In…

    • 747 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Monologues About Suicide

    • 1444 Words
    • 6 Pages

    These days, everything feels rehearsed, nothing is new anymore. Maybe I’m just done with this act of hiding behind a made up character. I mean, why fake feelings? Like laughing so loud, it's unrealistic, just to mask desperate crying.…

    • 1444 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics