DEATH, AS A MEANS TO SURVIVE

Abstract

Death, as a means to survive is a fictional story about the internal ramblings and preoccupations of people that are all interconnected in one way or another, whether that is because of their thoughts, their physical relation with each other, or just the fact that they are all humans. This is a story where the author challenged himself to explore the minds of troubled individuals and, by doing so, created a world full of either hopeless people, delusional people, or just people that believe in the transformative power of life. The author's motivation for this story was his endless quest to understand human emotions, as well as the desire to construct a narrative that comprises different points-of-view and different ways to understand the reasons we exist. The author has always been fascinated with approaching his fiction with a psychological and surrealist point-of-view, and thus, this story reflects his desires to do something for which not only he could connect to, but a bigger part of the audience could as well. Themes of the story include depression, anxiety, existentialism, romance, religion, psychological warfare, and the questions of mortality that plague every person head once in a while. This is a work that comes from the heart and soul of someone obsessed with humanity.