Death and fate have similar and different views now then
back in Anglo-Saxon times. Death unlike Anglo-Saxon times is not viewed as
highly to die honorable and be grateful. Instead now, we are trying to stop
death every which way with new medicine, carcinogenic freezing, and any other
crazy product. Back in Anglo-Saxon time, it was an honor to die fighting in
battle, because that is mostly how people did die. For those that somehow
managed to survive and die of old age, it would be considered a great lost as
they had a lot of wisdom. Now, there is still honor in dying in battle or for
your country, it is just not as widely “celebrated”. For example, all the men
and women who die for our country each year are commemorated for their honor
and bravery, but not that many people care or know that. This probably has to
do with the size of our people versus the size of the tribes in Anglo-Saxon
times. Fate has also been diminished throughout the years. Back in the good old
days, fate was fate, as in completely unavoidable. Now it is a term we throw
around to motivate people to get better. If you told someone in the Anglo-
Saxon time that it was their fate to be killed by a grizzly bear, they would accept
and wait for the time. Now you say that to a person in our era and you have a
totally different scenario. You would have a motivational coach shouting from
behind that this is not your fate, it is not set in stone and you can change
it. It would appear that the only aspect of fate that is still the same as Anglo-Saxon
times is not when, where, why and how, but you will die, and that is something no man can change his fate from.
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