Stan's essay, A Wake-Up Call to Live expresses the advise to live in the now and enjoy it. Stan stays away from preaching by using real life examples almost exclusively. He starts out with explaining how life gains complexity as it goes on, until death is near; this causes a person to look at things more simply. Then he goes on to show his experiences as a hospice volunteer, and uses those experiences to display the simplicity of the patients' actions and attitudes, and the lessons he gained from the situations. Finally he qualifies his feelings of how simple things are when in the face of death when he reveals that he himself is fighting prostate cancer. He uses a reference to a quote of Buddha's to open and close the essay. The tone of the essay is a solemn advisory one. Stan uses situations that tug at the heart string to bring out his point. He believes that people should value the time they have now, and not linger in the past or put too much in the future.
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