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    Gaynor, Janica Teresa P. Bsma-Iv PHILO 106-C July 17, 2017: Justifications

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    1. Among the Eskimo people, elderly people who could no longer contribute to their family would be left outside to die when extreme weather conditions like blizzards occurred. 2. This was an acceptable custom as the Eskimos believed the elderly would move on to an afterlife rather than be a burden by consuming scarce resources. Survival and taking care of the family was the top priority. 3. The Eskimos were entirely dependent on their harsh and unpredictable environment for food. During times of famine, sending the elderly out to sea was seen as allowing them to exit gracefully without becoming resented burdens on their families.

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    1. Among the Eskimo people, elderly people who could no longer contribute to their family would be left outside to die when extreme weather conditions like blizzards occurred. 2. This was an acceptable custom as the Eskimos believed the elderly would move on to an afterlife rather than be a burden by consuming scarce resources. Survival and taking care of the family was the top priority. 3. The Eskimos were entirely dependent on their harsh and unpredictable environment for food. During times of famine, sending the elderly out to sea was seen as allowing them to exit gracefully without becoming resented burdens on their families.

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    1. Among the Eskimo people, elderly people who could no longer contribute to their family would be left outside to die when extreme weather conditions like blizzards occurred. 2. This was an acceptable custom as the Eskimos believed the elderly would move on to an afterlife rather than be a burden by consuming scarce resources. Survival and taking care of the family was the top priority. 3. The Eskimos were entirely dependent on their harsh and unpredictable environment for food. During times of famine, sending the elderly out to sea was seen as allowing them to exit gracefully without becoming resented burdens on their families.

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    1. Among the Eskimo people, elderly people who could no longer contribute to their family would be left outside to die when extreme weather conditions like blizzards occurred. 2. This was an acceptable custom as the Eskimos believed the elderly would move on to an afterlife rather than be a burden by consuming scarce resources. Survival and taking care of the family was the top priority. 3. The Eskimos were entirely dependent on their harsh and unpredictable environment for food. During times of famine, sending the elderly out to sea was seen as allowing them to exit gracefully without becoming resented burdens on their families.

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    Gaynor, Janica Teresa P.

    BSMA- IV
    PHILO 106-C
    July 17, 2017

    CUSTOM: Old people also, when they became too feeble to contribute to the family,
    were left out in the snow to die.

    Justifications:
    1. This custom is highly acceptable among the Eskimos, when old-age strikes, rather than
    waiting around as they dwindle toward death, eating food their companions fight to catch
    and clothing their companions struggle to construct, the elderly Eskimos are taken to sea,
    and set adrift on a floating iceberg. As the Eskimos believed that another world awaited
    their dead (death of elder people), they would not be sending the elderly off to die and
    disappear, but to move on to the afterlife.

    2. Eskimo customs are all about survival and family (really an extension of survival).
    Eskimos must work so hard to survive that they simply cannot manage to support adults
    who are no longer contributing to the well-being of the group. They must work hard in
    order to feed themselves. It is extremely important to understand how difficult survival
    was for an Eskimo family, and each person had to put their full attention toward their
    own survival.

    3. The Eskimos were completely dependent upon their environment, and due to various
    circumstances, they were, occasionally, put under the extreme stress of famine.
    For the old to be sent out to sea could actually be a blessing, a way to gracefully exit
    without becoming a burden and a point of resentment. In a way, this allowed the elderly
    to be preserved, in the minds of the living, in a more ideal stateuntainted. They would
    be spared disgraces such as senility and loss of bodily function, and would, in some
    sense, be granted an opportunity to die without first decaying.

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