the reality most people are disturbed to think that there end is near and they are helpless to stop all every human beings eventual outcome; death. If this were not the case then why do governments and individuals spend millions of dollars on researching terminal diseases such as cancer or aids? If fate played the same role in present day as it did in the Iliad, then most people would accept their death as the way things happen instead of spending time and money fighting terminal diseases. In the Iliad, Achilles knowing that he is fated to die if he revenges the death of his close friend, Patroclus who was killed
             by the mighty Hector. His mother Thetis, who is a Goddess, tries to persuade him to not fight Hector but knowing all along that he will fight any way and die after killing Hector because although she is a Goddess fate has decided his death to follow him killing Hector. But Fate is also used as a reassurance. In Book 7, Helenos explains to his brother Hector that he has every reason to fight Aias. "For it is not your fate to
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