Why should I climb the mountain? A famous British mountaineer replied, "Because the mountain is there." For mountaineers, mountains are an irresistible call. Take mountaineering as a lofty cause and go all out. The spirit of human exploration is eternal. It is precisely because of human exploration spirit and continuous progress that today's civilization has come into being. Many people have given their precious lives in the process of exploring nature, but this is a valuable asset for later generations. Cultivating the spirit of exploration is of positive significance to a person and a nation. An adventurous person will constantly seek new conquest goals and new realm and height of life; On the contrary, if a person or a nation has no spirit of exploration, there will be no future. 199 1 year, Amundsen of Norway and Scott of Britain began to conquer the South Pole almost at the same time. Five weeks after Amundsen won the class championship, Scott reached the South Pole. Although Scott knew Amundsen had won the March to the South Pole, he didn't stop because he would be a loser. When I came back, I was trapped in the ice and snow because of the early arrival of Antarctic winter. My friend Oates broke his foot and had difficulty in moving. In order not to drag everyone down, he walked out of the tent alone at night and disappeared in the snowstorm. Finally, the last three explorers were seriously overdrawn and lacked food and fuel. The merciless snowstorm froze them to death in cold, hunger and fatigue. Scott was still writing his adventure diary before his death, and they never gave up their 35-pound rock sample until their death. Zweig once praised: "Magnificent destruction, though still alive, produces the will to climb infinite peaks in failure. Although a person destroyed himself in the struggle against invincible bad luck, his heart became extremely noble. " Legend of Thorn Birds There is a legend that there is a bird that sings only once in its life, and its song is more beautiful than all the creatures in the world. From the moment it left the nest, it was looking for the thorn tree and wouldn't stop until it reached its goal. Then it plunged into the longest and sharpest thorns and let out the sound among the wild branches. At the dying moment, it transcended its own pain, and its singing actually eclipsed larks and nightingales. This is a beautiful song, and the end of the song is death. However, the whole world is listening quietly, and God is smiling in the sky. Because the best things can only be bought with the deepest pain ... every fish cares that after the storm, many small fish washed ashore are trapped in shallow pits on the beach and cannot return to the sea. A little boy kept picking up small fish and throwing them into the sea. Passers-by can't help but say, "son, there are hundreds of thousands of small fish here, which you can't save." "I know," the boy replied. "Then why did you throw it away? Who cares? " "This little fish cares! This little fish cares! " Give pain a place to go, not a place to come back to life. Recently, the research results of scientists in China and Canada show that suicide has become the first cause of death in China1people aged 5 to 34. My friend said: my existence not only means that I am alive, but should have the quality of life; If I lose my quality of life, I choose to die, just like euthanasia, which is a respectable way to end. To some extent, I agree with her, but there is a premise that this way of choosing death is based on serious thinking and can bring sublimation to life. At least, it is a maintenance of life dignity. I hate people who end their lives under a little pressure. It's escape. What's more, suicide is used as a means of coercion. Such people end life itself, not the pain it brings them. Frustration and anger are a kind of pain. The best way to end it is to give pain a place to go, not to give life a place to go. Who died in the explosion of fireworks workshop in Pingxiang, Jiangxi and the fire in Jiaozuo dance hall? Sichuan Hechuan shipwreck, Wuhan passenger plane crash, Dover stowaway tragic death, Jiangmen fireworks factory explosion. Du Shugui, director of the Public Security Bureau of Bazhou City, Hebei Province, shot the gunman in the street before the final trial. Liu Dezhou, a public security instructor in Yuzhou, Henan Province, shot and killed three people and fled. In the September 1 1 incident, two skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York were in ruins. The walls of Afghan homes are covered with bullet holes as dense as sieve holes, and there are rotting bodies in Jenin refugee camp. Yao Li, a salesgirl of Daqing Branch of China Construction Bank, was forced to hand over more than 10,000 yuan to gangsters in order to avoid being robbed of more money. Although she immediately took the initiative to pay the money afterwards, the unit still implemented a "double opening" for her and expelled her from the party membership and public office. The bank made it clear: "As a native of party member, Yao Li should not hesitate to give everything, even her most precious life, at a critical moment." Finally, after the arbitration commission's ruling and the court's judgment, under the pressure of public opinion, the unit finally showed mercy: expelled from the party, recorded serious mistakes and compensated for losses. Life has a price, and eventually it naturally evolves into a life without price and nothing. Under all kinds of wonderful flags, life is trampled, humiliated and even strangled. Life is valuable, and what is embodied in the bones is a sense of indifference or even indifference to life. When Su Shi was a child, his mother wouldn't let the servants catch birds, so birds were not afraid of people. For several years, birds have built nests on low branches, and people can look down at the chicks in the nests. There are 400 or 500 rare species of phoenix birds, including tung flowers. Some people say that birds nest too far away from people, which will lead to the predation of snakes, rats and eagles; If people don't kill, they will naturally approach people. Be kind to life and gain the trust of others. Epitaph is also a kind of culture. Shen Congwen's tomb has no magnificent tombs, no tomb pavilion to shelter from the wind and rain, and no grave bag. The most striking thing is that a large irregular colored stone stands on the overgrown ground. I saw that the front of the stone was enlarged by Shen Congwen's own handwriting: "If I think, I can understand' I', and if I think, I can understand' people'." On the ridge more than ten meters away, there is an inscription by Huang Yongyu, a great painter: "A soldier will either die in battle or return to his hometown. The Light of Humanity In a prehistoric house site in Guanting Town, Minhe County, Qinghai Province, archaeologists recently found 14 dead bodies, five of whom died together in the southwest of the house site, and one of them seemed to be guarding four people with his hands. A pair of mother and son under the east wall, the mother kneels on the ground against the wall, with her right hand on the ground, a baby in her left hand and her cheek against the baby's head. Why did Solon cry? A pedant saw Solon crying for a dead child and said to him, "If crying can't save anything, then why are you crying like this?" The saint replied, "that's because nothing can be redeemed." When Huan Wen passed Jincheng, he saw that all the willows planted by me when I was the magistrate of Langyun had grown to ten yards thick, and said with emotion, "How can people be inferior with all this wood?"! "Climbing branches and holding articles, tears annotate the words of life. Even ordinary life contains one of the most important suspense: death. Death is always accompanied by life. Without the nothingness of death, there is no abundance of life. Death makes everything in the world so precious, so sacred and so beautiful. Standing on the brink of death, we tend to be more attached to life and more eager for it. Tension and anxiety, happiness and sadness, thoroughness and obsession, trance and sobriety, nostalgia and foresight, rich experiences and surging thoughts hover between their past, present and future. This moment in life is so unique, so inevitable and so thrilling! Hugo wrote in his suicide note: "God, soul and responsibility, these three concepts are enough for a person. I have been living with this belief and will die with it. Truth, light, justice and conscience, this is God. "Newton's last words are very concise. His final evaluation of himself is the child who picked up several shells in front of the vast sea of truth. Einstein didn't want to turn his office into a memorial hall for people to make pilgrimages. " Everything will die with me except my scientific ideal and social ideal. Dante's last words were only one sentence: "It is love that makes the sun and the earth go round". The charm of life lies in constantly surpassing oneself, giving birth to ideas from pain and misfortune, and enjoying the power of life from creation and transcendence. Life dares to bear hardships and tragedies, and life breaks free from its own limitations. Goethe's death is a kind of death phobia. He always avoids talking about the word "death". He can't see the funeral. If the hearse passes by his house, he will be angry. However, he himself is not afraid of death. One spring evening, watching the sunset with ekman, he said to his friend, "When people live to 75 years old, they sometimes think of death. I feel calm at the thought of death, because I believe that our life is indestructible and will continue in the afterlife. Life is like the sun. We thought we saw it disappear, but it didn't disappear, it was still shining. Before he died, he shouted, "light … a little lighter!" "Finally, he grasped his daughter-in-law's hand tightly and said weakly," No, little woman, just let me touch your gentle little hand for a while! " Chekhov's last words Chekhov wanted to seek physical recovery, but found death. Dr. Schwaller had champagne sent upstairs. Chekhov took the handed glass and turned to his wife Olga: "I haven't had champagne for a long time." He drank the wine in the cup slowly, then lay down and died peacefully. Rousseau talked about death. Once, Diderot went to Montmorency to visit Rousseau. Rousseau pointed to a pond and said, "This is where I want to jump again and again to end my life!" "Why didn't you do it?" Diderot asked, "I put my hand into the water, but it was too cold!" " "He replied," It's beautiful there "193 1 Edison has been dying since August. He was awake for a while before he died. "It's beautiful over there! "He said. The sadness of Jin Shengtan Jin Shengtan played by the well when he was a child. He threw a stone into the well and went home and cried. Adults asked him why, and he said: I threw a stone into the well, thinking that I would never get out again, and I cried. His last poem: "the drums are rushing, the sun is setting in the west, and there is no hotel in the grave." Who will stay tonight? " Before the execution, he said, "decapitation is like the wind blowing a hat." Epicurus on Death You should get used to believing that death is something that has nothing to do with us, because all good and evil are in the feeling, and death is just the loss of feeling. For this reason, a correct understanding of death has nothing to do with us, which makes us happy with the fact that life has death. This understanding does not add endless time to life, but liberates us from the desire for death. If a person correctly understands that there is nothing to be afraid of to stop living, then there is nothing to be afraid of in life ... so the most terrible of all evils-death-is insignificant to us, because when we exist, death has not come to us; And when we die, we no longer exist. " I am alive "once wrote" On privilege, what is the third level? Someone asked French priest and constitutional theorist Sies: 1789 What did you do during the Great Revolution? He replied, "I'm still alive." Living, this is a trivial matter starting with a bowl of vegetable soup and half a shed. The desire to live is sometimes strong and sometimes slim, but she has been walking. What survives may not be the best, but he has the responsibility to survive. God can only give the living the following mission: red furnace and light snow. There is a Zen machine that is profound, colorful and full of beauty: red furnace and light snow. Snowflakes are flying. One just landed on the fiery red stove. Freeze it before it falls. We find that it exists, although in an instant, it immediately melts and returns to emptiness. A person's life, no matter how long or short, is like this snowflake. Sprinkle from the sky and walk on Wan Li Road, which can be called "long"; The attitude of falling more and more is fast, it is impossible to turn back, and there is no time to think carefully, so it has already disappeared, so it is considered "short". -A second or two? Hundreds of years? The blazing fire devoured it overbearingly. It existed, but it was too late to leave any traces. When snowflakes push each other towards bright colors, it is just a meaningless chase. Beauty, that's true. What a temptation to wait for a wandering life for an ideal, life is not mixed with mediocrity! Life is a pen in your hand, and ideal is the most beautiful song in your heart. Write and sing in the vast sky! Tragic and beautiful! What kind of temptation is this? Going to a distant life may be the experience of some times. Different ages make us have different stages of life, making our life like a tree, with rings and seasons, roots and fruits, happiness and pain. The beginning of every life is full of hope, vitality and possibility. After the growth period, the vitality began to weaken. With the growth of age, hopes and possibilities will become smaller and smaller. Elephants in Africa are aging, and they will automatically find a place not far from the elephants to lie down. An elephant eats a lot of aquatic plants a day, so a lying elephant won't eat the aquatic plants around it. It wants to leave them to future generations. It's very old. It is too old to run, mosquitoes and flies are flying around its corner, and its tired eyes are watching the elephant exult in the scene of life and watching the elephant pass by it. Young elephants will touch the bodies of grandfathers or grandmothers with their noses, as if to say goodbye to them, and then they will walk away from them. The beauty of life, the truly beautiful life, pursues the truth persistently. It will not distort its image, change its smart lines, and will not contaminate its beautiful background with dust. Unless it is burned to ashes and turned into dust, a beautiful life is like a clean stream, and it will never return to the sea with optimism and strength until the last drop. Sometimes, it may be blocked by cold eyes; Sometimes, it may be ruthlessly stranded; What's more, it hasn't caught a glimpse of the beautiful and splendid starry sky at night, and it hasn't quietly listened to the pure voice in the depths of the universe, so it has been ruined by unexpected vulgarity and sinister. It is dying ... Life is beautiful because it has always held a beautiful theme in the process of its flesh and blood; The reason why beauty is eternal lies in the inside story of life, and the purest conscience and desire of human beings flow forever. Therefore, beauty exists because of life, and life is eternal because of beauty. This is a unity for which even God prays. Looking back on the glorious life, there is also a concrete windowsill that completely loses its window frame. A pot of begonia is competing to open, swaying in the wind. I watched it silently for a long time, and suddenly realized, oh, this is a brilliant life, which may wither soon in the morning when winter comes, but it has been living in this world, and this is the beauty of life. Life is fragile. People have both life and suffering. So, there is a beautiful life. Occasionally, I bend down to see the leaves pecked through by insects. The sunshine passes through the veins of life, clearly showing the traces of years, and that kind of touch has a heartfelt pain. This is the beauty of life. Even a broken life. In fact, how long life is unpredictable, because unpredictable, no one can tell whether it is a hundred years or a few years or decades. We can design the goal of life, but we cannot design the length of life. Life has only width, that is, quality is worth thinking and calculating. Only by exerting the flexibility of its width and being a valuable person can our life be multiplied. Thinking about choosing life and choosing death: Death can make you realize your ambition, live, but fulfill your ambition. When death befell Sima Qian, he chose life, a life that made his body and spirit and his relatives and friends extremely miserable-Westerners' consciousness of sacrificing their lives for righteousness is different from that of the East, and they pay more attention to life and personal development. In the traditional culture of China, the small life of the self is regarded as a part of the national life. Give up the small and take the big, so there is a sense of relief. Living like a tree is happiness without pain. This is the universal social significance of euthanasia. However, I want to say that no pain does not mean happiness. Compared with death, living is happiness. Even if living is full of pain, people would rather live in pain than die happily. In this regard, I want to say one more thing: I would rather die than surrender. Enron is a helpless choice to face the pain of death; And happiness is the active pursuit of living people all their lives. Therefore, I think that when people appreciate and affirm euthanasia, they should appreciate and affirm a happy life. Because the real premise must be alive first; Secondly, live as happily as possible, not as the saying goes: a good death is better than a bad life. Death, of course, to die well; Live, why not live well, or even live better? Less complaining, less exuberance, less vain desire, less worldly interference, less calculation troubles, less boring vanity, regard life as a tree, where there is life, there is death, and where there is glory, there is withering; Take root in the earth and only ask for the nutrients you should ask for; ; Cold comes and summer goes, silently accepting the arrangement of nature; Dew in the breeze is the baptism of happiness; Shade passers-by and keep you healthy in the coming year. Such a tree, such a life, its anxiety is also happy! Famous people's last words German composer Beethoven was tortured by the pain of deafness for more than 20 years, leaving only such a sad last word before his death: "I will hear everything in heaven." Keats, an English poet, expressed his last thought in his poem: "I think my face is covered with wild chrysanthemums." Byron, an English poet, was tired of the world because of high fever and long-term lack of food. He whispered, "Now I want to sleep." King Louis XIV of France lived to be eighty years old. At the last moment of his life, he saw everyone crying around him and said loudly, "why are you crying?" Do you think I'm a fairy? I thought death was much more terrible than this! " Former US President Wilson died peacefully in the face of death. He said, "I'm ready." When rabelais, a famous French dramatist, died, he said, "Pull down the curtain and the comedy is over." Norwegian forest: death is not the opposite of life, but a part of life. Death is not the opposite of life. Death has been included in the existence of "I". No matter how hard we try to forget it, it is futile. This is empiricism. Because when 17 years old, I captured the death of Muyue and my beauty on a night in May. Once on the Gobi Desert, there was a little flower called Yimi. This flower has four petals, each with its own color: red, white, yellow and blue. Its uniqueness does not stop there. Plants with huge roots can grow well. However, there is only one root, which meanders into the deep underground. It usually takes five years to complete the work of interpenetrating rhizomes, and then, bit by bit, it is adopted. In the spring of the sixth year, it will bloom green flowers on the ground and see a small flower with four colors. Unfortunately, this one-meter flower is not easy to grow and has a short flowering period. In just two days, it disappeared with the mother plant. The growth of one-meter floret is strikingly similar to the life course of cicada. They are a very weak member of the family with thousands of knowledge, but they tell the world with their own unique way of life: life is only once, and beauty is only once, which is enough! A youth, a success, a courage, a magnificent pillar, no regrets in life ... once, only once, but it takes a long time of perseverance and arduous journey, and even needs to exhaust a person's life time and life energy! The journey of life is much longer than a meter of flowers. However, in this long and arduous journey, we may not do better than a meter of flowers. The gate of life and death is on an island in the South Pacific. There is a kind of bird called warbler. Lin Ying feeds on a kind of grass seed called Tribulus terrestris, but this kind of grass seed is covered with spikes, and the pulp is wrapped in a deep inner core. Warblers can't easily peck the pulp inside. It must first put the grass seeds on the ground, take a bite, twist them, then hold against the rock, with its upper beak pressing hard and its lower beak squeezing hard until it is exhausted, before it can shell and eat the pulp. Many warblers who can't peck open grass seed shells are starved to death, and only a few warblers survive tenaciously. Scientists have studied this kind of songbirds. Only songbirds with beaks up to 1 1 mm can peck open the shells of grass seeds and survive. The length of the beak is 10. Warblers under 5 mm starved to death because they could not peck grass seeds. It turns out that the life and death door of warbler is only 0.5 mm apart! This reminds me of the idiom "One short step makes an everlasting regret". The fate and success of life are also determined by subtle differences: a candidate is 0. 5 points, may fall off the list; An athlete, 0 short. 5 seconds, may miss the championship ... If we say that warblers are born with long beaks, we can increase our wisdom and talents through our efforts the day after tomorrow. Now that we know that the door between life and death is sometimes only 0. 5 mm, why don't we work harder and harder to make our "beak" longer and longer. It may change our lives! The death showed that a young black man from Congo, Africa, stayed at a friend's house, and the friend prepared a pheasant for breakfast. The tribe of black youth is forbidden to eat pheasants, so he asked his friend earlier if this is a pheasant. The friend replied that it was not a pheasant. Black youth enjoyed a delicious breakfast. A few years later, they met again. A friend asked him if he wanted to eat pheasants, but the young man replied that it was impossible, because the wizard solemnly warned him not to eat pheasants. The friend smiled and told him that he had pheasant for breakfast. Who knows that the young man died of trembling in less than 24 hours? Some people explain the cause of death by suggesting that extreme fear is similar to the physiological reaction caused by extreme anger, both of which will increase adrenaline and reduce blood supply to some parts of the body. When the blood supply decreases, the oxygen delivered by red blood cells will also decrease accordingly. If the capillaries lack oxygen, plasma will easily penetrate into the tissues around the blood vessels. If the state of fear or anger lasts too long, the blood circulation of the whole body will be reduced. This will lower blood pressure, which will lead to a vicious circle: lowering blood pressure will seriously affect the function of organs responsible for maintaining blood circulation, and then blood circulation will decrease, further lowering blood pressure, which will be fatal if it continues.