HW . 17

    When I think of illness and dying, I imagine all the things that causes illness such as drugs, car accidents, murdering, someone with tubes going in and out of their body, just the typical things that just sums up death because illness leads to dying. Growing up in my family I experienced people in my family dying when I was around 6 when at first I didn't know what was going on just that they were very sick. But as I got older and when family members passed away I learned why, but it's not something that was ever hidden from me; my parents didn't try and cover it up and say oh your grandfather went to sleep with the angels or anything like that my parents told me the truth. 

     In society today the normal thing for someone who is Ill is to start making funeral arrangements getting the will together, which is what I think makes the whole process more stressful because that's what most of the people are worried about if they are getting something from the will. A typical norm for dying is a funeral with everyone around wearing black, I guess black is suppose to signify death. But I disagree at my funeral I would want people to wear white because it signifies a new beginning almost and not a dreary and depressing color, and I would want people to feel like I'm going to a better place and not feel all depressed about it. 

     In my family illness is not something that's taken lightly but it's also taken advantage of and abused. If theirs a cousin or uncle I haven seen in a year or longer you'll see them when theirs a sick family member because they are trying to get their way in to the will and usually it ends up working even though they don't really care about you. When visiting a sick relative becomes more of a who's going to get what, or you shouldn't get that I should and so on and less about taking care about the person which I think is very disrespectful and a useless arguing. You should deal with what you get or don't get, you lost a family member and your worried about material things that you can replace you ant replace a person .