TOW #10: I Nearly Died. So What?

        This article was about a woman who suffered from a severe case of flea-borne typhus, which should have either killed her or left her brain damaged. The whole article is written in an anecdotal form explaining her "miracle," and how her way of life after didn't meet the standards of what her friends and family expected her to live and approach her new life. 
        Meghan Daum explains how she herself was faced with death, and watched her mother be faced with a similar fate, but from a different disease. She elaborates on how her friends and family claimed she was blessed and given a "miracle," and that her old way of life should change and she should forever be grateful. Although, she had a completely different outlook. She came out from the crisis with the mindset that, "I’m not a better person. I’m the same person. Which is actually kind of a miracle." Daum believed that the fact that she didn't change was more of a miracle than her having an epiphany and changing personalities completely. Meghan Daum uses pathos in her article to explain how she approached her own situation and her mothers. She also utilizes certain aspects of satire that contribute to her outlook and explanation of how her perspective didn't change. 
        Meghan Daum's article is successful in communicating her counter viewpoint in which people believe that one's perspective should change after a crisis. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/opinion/sunday/i-nearly-died-so-what.html?ref=opinion&_r=0