“Death is the debt that every man must pay,” wrote Euripides. Every day, death reminds us; a television report on starving children in Africa or a suicide bomber in the Middle East. Headline in the newspaper regarding a murder, suicide or “honor killing”; News of the premature death of a loved one, a friend, a colleague. It seems that death is everywhere. Until this essay was assigned, I had never really thought about how death had affected me, or how close I was to this person who died so suddenly, sometimes without even saying goodbye . Come to think of it, I've actually been around death a lot in my short life so far; For a long time, I attended many sad funerals. But how close I was to that person is a whole different story. Even when it comes to my own family, I haven't always been very close to them when they passed away because they lived in another state, or my parents weren't very close to them, so I was never close enough to them to know. or develop an attachment. (1A) In my life, according to the survey I conducted on the exhibitions, I noted around fifty people, and among these fifty, I developed an attachment with more than half of these people. Thinking about it, there are quite a few attachments to develop in my life so far, I mean if even one of these people who didn't die already died tomorrow, then part of my life would change in a way quite significant. The number of people alive today with whom I have developed some sort of bond is, in my opinion, quite a large number. I have about 20-30 attachments that still live today among my friends, family and loved ones. When I divided the number of people I had noted on my survey (1A) by the number ...... middle of paper ......r, it was because I was afraid of death and not being able to say goodbye to people before I die. After writing this article, I realized that I had experienced this my whole life and it didn't scare me as much as I initially thought. So if I had to rewrite something, I would say that even though it scares me, I'm not afraid of not saying goodbye to people before I die. Much of the pain of death for the living comes from a sense of loss. This marks the end of all possibilities, both for us and for the deceased, that could have been realized through a longer life. Overall, although death is a sad thing, it is part of the reason I am the person I am today. It made me realize that I need to develop stronger relationships now so that I don't have regrets if they suddenly pass away. I found out I can't fix anything after a person leaves..