Obituary

I chose this obituary because of all the irony Alan Landers’ life had. Even though he was the face of Winston cigarettes and was earning a decent amount of money, most of his money probably went back to the cigarette manufacturer, which ended up costing his life. I also chose this one because it’s about consumerism, something that I am very interested in. I hate how there are so many companies that don’t really care about the welfare or health of their consumers and only about making profits. There’s more to life than money… and it baffles me that so many people are obsessed with making more money than they will ever be able to spend. This is just something that I will never fully understand because I will never be super rich! I learned that cigarette companies knew beforehand that tobacco was dangerous to your health, but they kept on promoting their products as good, “cool” things. I think that there are tons of products we use today that are actually dangerous to us, but we just don’t know it yet because corporations don’t want us to know so they can keep on raking in more and more profits. I think Alan Landers is a good model because he was tricked into doing something he didn’t mean to do, and that was to promote death. He spent the last years of his life trying to prevent other people from making the same mistakes as he did. He spent more money on medical bills caused by cancer than he made while being part of the cause of cancer. Maybe people will learn from Mr. Landers and stop spending money on McDonalds all the time to prevent paying thousands of dollars on medicals bills when they are older with clogged arteries and high cholesterol.