Conserve, Reuse, and Recycle

The sentence that describes the point the most is "Quite simply, use what you have unitl it can no longer function. Then it's time to recycle." Semrau's intent was to encourage people to make the most of your body, even after you have no more use of it. Semrau took the saying "be green" in a very literal way. He was not striving to be green by conserving, reusing, and recycling objects, but by reusing himself. First, he described how he used his body for the first 75 years of his life, and now how he will achieve his dream of becoming a surgeon by donating his body to science. However, this point was not very evident at the beginning of the article because he left out this last fact until the very end. Because of this lack of information, readers can find themselves wondering how his life story was related to the earlier discussion of going green. The article had an effect, but the effect was sort of lost in the description of his childhood dream of becoming a surgeon. It created a lighter tone to the article, and gently introduced his idea instead of forcing it on the reader, but if his purpose was to encourage others make the most out of their bodies, it was not effective because it really was not persuasive. It did not give many reasons for doing so, only why he personally was doing it.