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What am I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human or a piece of Science?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passage 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that one day death will come and knock at my door<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She won\u2019t wait for an answer for her knock identifies her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if I will be scared when I hear that knock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or will I be brave and say Welcome Home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that I too must one day die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I know it could happen anywhere anyhow anyplace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s she who gets to choose the date<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this should make me resigned to my fate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should be able to indifferent and probably brave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the great men who have walked this earth and died<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who said that death is to be welcomed like life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their dying breath I wonder if they were scared<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What lies behind that great door of death? Do you just vanish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you no more? Are you \u201cwas there\u201d? no feelings at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or are you seeing but not being seen? Hearing but not being heard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I knew would it make me feel better ? 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