HW#29

Facing Terminal Illness has many variables and plenty of people deal with terminal illness and dying. For example Beth, she is Evan Wood’s mother she came in to talk about how she dealt with her husband’s death and how she approached death and what it comes with. Beth talked about how she never had a day where she wanted to talk to about death with her husband because she wanted to keep everything positive around him and around to the family so they can believe. She also said that even though her husband was dying she said that those were her best years with him because they didn’t have to deal with work or anything else it was just them two it brought them together. In the book Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie and Mitch were very close because of the disease that was killing Morrie he wanted to live life with his best friends and with anyone who wanted to hear his story. Not everyone grieves during death everyone deals with it in different ways.

Everyone gets sick and majority of the time they have one family member that is suffering from something bad. From my own experience it is my grandmother she has Dementia, which is a disease that causes her to forget people including herself. She has a nurse that comes to her house everyday and takes care of her. My mom also goes to her house everyday to check on her. My mother now has nerve problems because she is worried everyday about her mother and she thinks about her death everyday. My grandmother is a very strong person but her is a very bad disease to have and have side effects. My grandmother has panic attacks almost every week because she gets confused on whom her home attendant is.

The process of dying is very important because doctors deal with our family and friends and watching Near Death made me think of death and the way they treat our relatives. I find that it’s not fair what doctors do and how they treat people who are dying. What really caught my eye was how even though the doctors knew that the person they were taking care of was already dying or already dead they kept them in the ICU days and even weeks. They didn’t even resuscitate the people that were about to die and I thought ever since I was young I thought that doctors would always try to resuscitate the people that were dying no matter what state that the person is in. Beth explained death in a good way because she dealt with the process of dying in a way I would do it and I agree with everything she did until the end. She was never negative about the situation and she also talked to the doctors about being positive