Why Is Death Important In Romeo And Juliet

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The high value of life is fairly recent. In World War I, millions of U.S. soldiers died. In the war with Syria, which has been going on for a few years, the first U.S. soldiers just died a few weeks ago. Their deaths were national news. In the play, multiple people die and many of them do it without fear. I do not think that death should be feared as much as it is, because it is the one thing nobody in the world can avoid forever. People fear death because they don’t know what will happen to them and the ones they love once they have passed. I believe that if people knew the future, they would be more accepting of death. When Romeo and Juliet was written, death was taken lightly because it was very common to die young. Currently, death is