Which statement best summarizes the central theme of this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich?
and suddenly it grew clear to him that what had been oppressing him and would not leave him was all dropping away at once from two sides, from ten sides, and from all sides. he was sorry for them, he must act so as not to hurt them: release them and free himself from these sufferings. "how good and how simple! " he thought. "and the pain? " he asked himself. "what has become of it? where are you, pain? "
he turned his attention to it.
"yes, here it is. well, what of it? let the pain be."
"and is it? "
he sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "where is it? what death? " there was no fear because there was no death.
in place of death there was light.
1.acceptance of death causes less pain.
2.death is painful and cannot be avoided.
3.death should be feared since it is painful.
4.freeing oneself from death is impossible.

You need to write a 1600 word essay about how to make a proper discord server, i will supply a outline that i have made. 1. make the server a. go create server b. make a name c. select a picture to use d. select your region e. press create 2. inviting people a. invite people you have on discord b. if no, copy link and add never expire c. optional to do later 3. make channels a. decide what you want this to be about "list options" b. make channels around your topic "one already made" c optional add voice chats "one already made" 4. make roles a. make roles for moderation "other roles for trusted people to you run server" b. optional make roles for other people "explain in essay" 5. make rules a. make rules for everyone to follow b. make rules for people higher in ranking to follow c. inform mods on how to enforce rules 6. optional add bots a. bots make life easy b. makes moderation easier to enforce 7. listen to community a. your community/people in your server are best to listen to "explain in essay" b. change things that your community wants to be modified. you need to go into detail about almost every line in order to reach the 1600 words.

Identify the participle or infinitive phrase in the sentence below

Which line from act i scene i of a midsummer night's dream expresses one of the main themes of the play? a.) “thrice-blessed they that master so their blood," b.) “but earthlier happy is the rose distill'd," c.) “the course of true love never did run smooth; " d.) “so quick bright things come to confusion."