Society, as a whole, fears oblivion. People fear death and the world tries to do everything in its power to avoid it. Medicine exist to avoid death, to avoid becoming forgotten. However, even though individuals might disappear forever in the world, their families will remember them, as a person who has done great things and as memories. Rebecca Skloot, in her 2010 historical nonfiction novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, utilizes the rhetorical strategy of pathos to display how, even through death, individuals can impact the living.
Individuals cease to exist from the world after death. Many people fear oblivion, they don’t want to believe their time on Earth meant nothing. Many people do not want their families and friends to feel
