"On Natural Death", My Rhetorical Source analytical snapshot

"On Natural Death" is a very interesting, informative essay written by Lewis Thomas which gives many perspectives on life and death. The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader of how death is to be looked at for humans against things such as a tree or a little mouse. He starts off by comparing to an elm tree about death and how it is to feel nothing when it dies and then people come and clean up the mess. He then moves on to the example of a mouse in the jaws of a house cat. He expresses how the mouse has a different way of dying than that of the tree. The central message of this essay is that death is looked at in many different ways and no matter how much to try to avoid death, Mother Nature will still get you no matter what you try to do. The world view of Lewis Thomas is simple and that is that life is a valuable thing and we should cherish it but no matter what we do we will have to face the facts and accept mother nature while she is to take our life. He also used many different tools and one of those tools was the examples of little things such as a mouse for us to realize that even little things might feel pain. Another one he uses is evidence from Montaigne, who was a famous writer and he uses some of his work. This is a great story on how you can look on life and pain and really caught my interest because i have had family members pass away and it really changed my views.