The Long Habit" is a brief essay about, as Thomas Browne says, "The long habit of living." Many people have a difficult time dealing with the fact that everyone, including themselves, is going to die. Some people are obbessed with the thought of living into old age. So much so, that they are trying to find or discover ways in which they can live longer. Thomas wrote about four different cases where people had died and been ressesitated, three of these people had calm and peaceful experiences. One of the four,however, was in agony. This patient had rabies, he remained acutely aware of every stage in the process of his own disintegration. Thomas said the man with rabies was the only case in which he had seen agony present in death. Even though this is the only case Thomas has seen agony in, people still fear death. People always have been, and always will be, afraid to die. The lack of knowledge and control about death brings about the fear. Death is a very limited thing to learn about, as anyone could imagine.
             I agree with what Thomas wrote, that we share the most tangled and evasive attitudes about death. People may not be satisfied with the thought of death but, in most cases, accept it. I think that even if becomes evident that death is not a bad thing to do people will still fear it. I think this because, there will always be an unanswered question , thus, leading to disbelief of death not being a bad thing to do. Humans are very hard to convince, especially of the thing they want to believe the most; almost as if it is to good to be true. Though there are studies going on about death, no one person will exactly be able to define what people really go through. Not every person will experience death the same. For example, two people may die the same way and one may seem to have an agonizing experience, more so than the other person. In other words you cannot do a study on how some people handle or feel when they d...