Death is a subject that many fear. No one seems comfortable with the idea of ​​dying, nor with the situation of someone else dying. Why is this? Sure, you could look at it from a religious point of view and find comfort that the person is going to Heaven or Hell. This may console you at some point, but what did they leave behind? Besides physical wealth, what will people remember them for? It seems that once a person dies, the only thing that is remembered is how hard they worked, how much they contributed to the greater good of society. A famous writer and poet finally seemed to come to this conclusion. Thomas Gray's elegy written in a country churchyard addresses death as the great equalizer, simple people are the ones who matter in society and only some things are left behind that truly matter after death. Initially, Gray states that death is the great equalizer. In the first half of the poem, Gray states that all that is earned in this world is all to no one. In lines 33-36 Gray says, “The boast of heraldry, the pageantry of power, and all that b...