Conserve, Reuse, Recycle

The sentence that reveals Semrau's point is "medical school can make one useful, and it can also make on 'green'. Conserve, reuse and recycle are the key words here, but mostly the 'reuse'". The intent of the essay is helped by Semrau intentionally keeping information from the reader. By keeping information from the reader Semrau successfully got the reader to understand that after a long life, you can still be helpful in the 'green' movement. The intent of this essay is to convince the reader that there is still something that they can do to help the generations to come, and that they should truly "consider joining" him. Semrau's strategy of keeping information from the reader allows him to share parts of his life with the reader to get them understand that after his 75 years of living and working as an engineer, he can donate his body after he dies. Harvard Medical School can reuse his body to help those to come. Semrau would not have been as effective if he had just come out and told the reader what he was doing because they would not have gotten the chance to get Semrau's background and they would not have understood that they could still help after they die as Semrau is going to do.