HW . 27

 The only sick person in the hospital that I know of that’s slowly dying would be my aunt she’s been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and she isn’t getting any better and she has been put into a nursing home in North Carolina. She can’t speak and compared to before the aunt I’m used to growing up with has changed a lot. Since she can’t speak and has lost most of her memory we can’t talk to her but if she still was capable  of doing that I think she would be like Morrie a little bit she wouldn’t be depressed that  she was dying but more of she’s going to a better place and she would of done what she could to spend her last days with her family and just having a good time because she’s a very fun and outgoing type of person and even though she’s slowly dying she’ll be making jokes.  I also wish that I had gone to visit her before she got put into the nursing home because I don’t have any recent memories of her before she got put into it and if I did I don’t remember them because it was so long ago that I spent time with her.

                The nursing home that my aunt is at, isn’t the best it could be better and my cousin (her daughter) and my mother want to move her to a better one but then that’ll be even further away and they feel better having her in North Carolina since most of her family lives in South Carolina so its not a big commute. Also compared to nursing homes here it looks very poor and isn’t the best the nurses don’t do such a great job to take care of their patients and you can tell when you walk in by the way the patients look and the way the building looks. This shows how the nurses don’t care which sucks since my aunt is there and isn’t getting all the care that she needs. But if she was put into a nursing home that was here she probably would have been taken real good care of and we wouldn’t have to worry as much it probably would of cost more but it would have been worth it because right now they aren’t getting their money’s worth for care she’s been given.

HW . 21b comments

for anthony - I like how you connected Beths experience with the book we Are reading in class Tuesdays with Morrie and how you added our own opinion on it . But I disagree a little bit I think that Morrie and Beth have very similar views on death and that they delt with it similarly they both were open to it knew that it was coming and couldnt do anything about it and was able to accept it. Also I like how you mentioned how you would feel better to accept and deal with death the way Beth did.

HW . 22

HW . 22
 
  The book I'm reading Tuesdays with Morrie an old man, a young man, and lifes greatest lesson By Mitch Albom 

  So far the book is mainly told through the point of view of the author Mitch and his experience with his teachers death. Mitchs teacher has a disease that's killing him slowly and instead of being depressed like some people he actually looked at it differently and made it so last days were filled wit joy and being with the ones he care about. Mitch at first when he left college lost contact with the teacher when he heard about him dying came back in his life and the teacher became more of a friend and mentor for him. One insightful quote I found interesting is when Mitch and Morrie were having one of their conversations and Morrie tells him "learn how to die, and you learn how to live" and I think the point of the message is that you have to accept death and learn that everyone will die, you can spend your life in happiness and doing what you want and living it to it's fullest. Another insight I found interesting was "83 everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently" I agree with this quote because I always knew that were going to die I just never really believed it will happen at any moment or tried to change my life. "Mitch I embrace aging" this quote reminded me of when I was younger and I couldn't wait to get older and grow up but slowly as I got older I started to wish I was younger again. 

 The way that Morrie approaches death in this story is very different to how I see my family go about it. In my family it's kept on the low not talked about alot brought once or twice but that's it and theres never a happy side of it like Morrie sees it. But a connection I can make is how the only time you really see the people in your family or your friends is when your dying. Just like Mitch he lost contact with Morrie but the fact that he was dying he went and spent time with him.