The Role Of Illness And Death
...to and deals with these situations depends on the way they view and value life. The ways the following people have dealt with illness and death have not only affected their own lived substantially but they have significantly helped the way these people have affected people in their own lives. Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler, and Paul Tsongas have all been faced with some sort of illness or death in their own lives, though each one of them was impacted differently. In the following pages the impact of illness and death with each of these individuals will be viewed in comparison towards the others.
When one thinks of the name Osama bin Laden, they think of 9/11 or mass murderer. Bin Laden seems to be portrayed as a terrorist by the media but once looked into, he is a psychologically complex person acting out on feelings on what he had learned of as right through out his whole life. Bin Laden was obviously not born a terrorist, no one is, and these characteristics were a result of the role his family played in his life and his wartime experiences . Osama came from a wealthy family and attended school for a business degree. Being of a Saudi background, his society was very secretive especially about his family life. At a young age, about ten or thirteen, Osama dealt with the death of his father, Mohammed. This loss was large in the eyes of a Saudi and Islamic society considering they were both patriarchal and the males' role in the household was prominent. After his fathers' death, bin Laden put himself under the tutelage of other males, mostly older at that. In some ways, they replaced his father yet they were less powerful. He made his role models radical Muslim leaders.
Another way that the death of his father may have impacted him was in his decision to enter the Afghanistan war. Being part of this war and seeing...
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