HW . 32

Like brittani said I never worried about death i just knew that it was something that was going to happen no matter what you can go against fate and dying. After this unit though I've learned a alot about illness and our healthcare system that i didnt know about. For example from watching the movie Near Death I didnt know exactly went on with doctors and how they pressure a patients family into letting them do all they could do and not put then out of their misery. I also learned how in Canada patients have the right to put themselves out of their own misery. Which i think is better then leaving it in the hands of the doctor who doesnt know your life story and maybe it is your time to go and one other thing that i've learned is how patients can get a wristlet that says that they dont approve of reasucitation if needed which is better then being left in their misery. This unit hasnt really changed my out look on life and death because i always thought you should live your life as if today is your last and now i feel i want my death to be more of remebernce of who i was and less of a mourning of me not being here.

HW. 33

Britani ,i agree with you I always felt death was just something that happens to those whos time is up. I also think that you could of said more of what specificaally you had learned from the unit.

HW . 30

I looked at the top five leading causes of death in america  which are Lower respiratory infections
Coronary heart disease
Diarrhoeal diseases
HIV/AIDS
Stroke 
I found it interesting that high income families have the most deaths over the age of 70 compared to low income familes were the age of death is between 0 to 14. I thought that high income familes death rate would be lower since they have money and able to take better care of themselves so I thought that the death rate would at least be around the age of 85.  High income families have more resources so they should rarely get sick but I guess they take advantage of that where in poor places the highest death rate is even before the baby is born. 

 I decided to explor a nursing home where old people can go when they suffer from one of the top causes of death or any other. At the nursing home I talked to the nurses about how they take care of their patients since my grandmother is there and she had a stroke. Nurses would come in and do daily things with the patients depending on their disbility, usually cleaning them changing their cloths coming in at different times to change their body position in my grandmothers case since she cant move. My grandmother has been through many different nurses because she gets moved around alot and some of the nurses are actually nice, helpful an take care of her while others dont do their best job, she could sit in one position for the whole day and no one will come and move her around so that her muscles dont get locked up and no longer able to move them, which shows how little people care about you even if your on your death bed. But people will spend hundreds of dollars to take care of a family member even when theirs no chance of them ever getting any better. This also shows how when it comes to sickness and dying families who can afford or barely can will go to great lengths to make sure that their family member is given the care they need even if it wont make a change and their wasting money. It also shows how we dont like to let go of things if someone is in acoma most families would have the doctors still do work and they would spend money even thought they know theirs no chance of their family member getting better. I think it matters because there are families waisting money some have it and some dont, I just happen to be in between my mom has money but not alot that she can just keep giving to take care of her mother when theirs the high chance that she'll never get better. 

HW . 29

  When someone dies there's a lot that goes on, and illness and dying aren't situations that you can handle lightly but you can deal with them in a positive way so it's not as depressing. When Beth came in to talk to us she was very positive about her husbands dying process and it seemed like she didn't let it consume her till she became depressed or ruined her life. She dealt with death as living each day to the fullest the last week he had to live. Also similar to the book Tuesdays with Morrie, he was slowly dying and he chose his way on how he wanted to die, which was to die happy and feeling loved. He was able to accomplish that by spending each day with the ones he love and in that time he was able to give out his last thoughts and wisdom to people so that they'll always have something to remember him bye.

  In the movie Near Death, they showed everything that goes on with dealing with sickness and death that we don think twice about. When someone is sick in the hospital we always want doctors to do all that they can which I believe is useless, their basically trying to bring a dead body back to life. When at the hospital and making the decision to put someone out of their misery doctors try and flip it so that it seems like your killing the person and to make you feel bad and doctors always say that the patients are receiving "comfort" by letting them lay in a bed with many tubes in them and no chance of ever really being able to live normal again or go home. Everyone deals with death differently even the doctors and nurses take certain approaches when it comes to "caring" for the patients.

HW . 28

ANThony, I liked how you connected your personal experience with death to the lady that came in and talked to us Beth and I know how you feel because my aunt has the same thing. I also liked how you are able to look at the positive of things and see the brightside and that even though your grandmother has dementia and is fighting against death, your still positive and feel that she will make it through no matter what.

HW . 27

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