Mary's Presentation Summary

Mary's Presentation Summary: Montaigne is known as being consummed with thoughts of death and dying. With his experiences of losing people he was close to, and in not so pleasant ways, he even stated that: "It is not death, it is the dying that alarms me." There is much we don't know about Montaigne, like whether or not he really went to law school and became an attorney. We can only read his words, which have been translated many times over but have not lost their appeal to those wanting to live a better life. People, especially now, are turning to his works to try and alleviate their own fears about death, and many of the other uncertainties in life. In relation to death, his attitude seemed to change after his own "freak accident". What was it that provoked this "calming"? Let me suppose a few of the possible reasons why he went from fearing it to accepting its "inevitableness", with peace! Did he perhaps experience..... See y'all tomorrow! Questions for discussion: Was Montaigne, by chance, bipolar? When he had his medal made, what do you think was the point of choosing to put on it three things: his age; "Epecho" (Greek for "I abstain"); and "Que sais-je" (French for "What do I know")? Do his writings relieve any of your worries?