1. Live life like it is your last day- Bryanna
2. Be around the ones you love the most in the time of death- Beth
3. You know when you are about to die- My mother
4. Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.- Mahatma Gandhi

The sources that have been the most helpful were talking to people who know someone that died.This was helpful because they got to tell me how they felt, reacted, and how things were after that person died. Also becuase they talk about if they was in that potision what they would do and what they could not do. Their thoughts and feelings and stuff made me see more how we are all sacred to let other people see us die from an illness. And I think it is weird how most of us go through the same thing but yet we try to act like we are different from one other.

HW 25 - Response to Sicko

The movie is about health care, it is about how people have health care but don’t have health insurance. It talked about how people think they will be covered when they have a big bill from the hospital, but they are really not. It also talked about how they insurance company will do anything to make sure you do not get any money from them. It also talked about how President Nixon started the whole thing with health care and health insurance.

The two pieces of evidence that Michael Moore used were the facts about what is going on and how we can change this that people

HW 24 - Illness & Dying Book, Part 3

The book I am reading is " Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Publisher is by DOUBLEDAY. Published in 1997

In the third 1/3 of the book the main character is talking about those things that he once wrote down which wereDeath,Fear, Aging,Greed,Marriage,Family,Socitey, Forgiveness,A meaningful life. They spend more and more time together. They did a lot of talking and a lot of sharing thoughts. Until one day they had to say good bye.

1."Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."-mahatma gandhi(page, 129)

2."Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others."(page, 164)

3."I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted....."

4."My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree(and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing)..."(page, 189)

From what I was reading I started to think about if I want people around me when I die. Do I want them to see me take my last breath or anything? I think that I want to die with no one round me. Because I think that if I have people around I am not going to be ok with dying and I am going to try and fight agaisnt death.

HW 23 - Illness & Dying Book, Part 2

The book I am reading is " Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Publisher is by DOUBLEDAY. Published in 1997

In the second 1/3 of the book the main character is talking about how his union is going on strike. He also talked about how he was going to be able to do what he like he do and how is he going to live with out a job. He also talked about how he goes to see his teacther more. And how they talk more about death. They talk about what they are scared of and what is going on with their life.

1. "Ask me anything,"Morrie always said. So I wrote this list:
Death
Fear
Aging
Greed
Marriage
Family
Socitey
Forgiveness
A meaningful life(page, 66)

2."A teacher affects eternity;he can never tell where his influence stops."-Herby Adams(page, 79)

3."Yes. But there's abetter approach. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in you life while your're living."(page, 81)

4."I don't want to leave the world in the stateof fright. I want to know what's happening, accpet it, get to a peaceful place, and let go. Do you understand?"(page, 107)

My thoughts are still the same as before. I still feel that the more ok with death you are the longer you will live. And that if you live life as if nothing is wrong then you will be able to live the life you want to live. But at the same time I find myself not really thinking about death these days. I only think about it in class and since we have not been talking about I have not really thought about it so maybe my thought aren't the same because I have not heard and other out looks on it. So I really can't say if my thoughts have change.

HW 22 - Illness & Dying Book Part 1

The book I am reading is " Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. Publisher is by DOUBLEDAY. Published in 1997

In the first 1/3 of the book the main character id talking about finishing college, moving on it life and dealing with death while dealing with how life wasn't what he thought it would be. About how he made promises but didn't keep them. And how he forgot about his dying teacher and decided o go see him.

1."Ted when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live"(page, 21)
2."There are some morning when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last long. Then I get up and say 'I want to live...'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. ButI'm betting on myself that I will."( page, 21)
3."I have been teaching this course for twenty years, and this is the first time I can say there is a risk in taking it, because I have a fatal illness. I may not live to finish the semester." ( page, 9)
4." Tell me something close to your heart"(page, 20)

I think that this book really helps you see how you really act with people's death around you. And how some people who are dying deal with death. But Ithink that most people that do not die right away but that dealing with and illness are ok with dying if they are older after like 2 months of living with that illness. And I wonder why some people that have illness and that are in pain all the time why don't they just don't kil them selves or something.

Hw 21b

For Ariel,I like how you really look at his work and fron the beauty in it. The way you can see the love of Beth and Erik in his work with out even knowing them on the level of people close to them. "One of them is 2 fishes kissing. One with a woman face and one with a man face. I interpreted it as Beth and Erik’s last kiss. Some fishes are closing their eyes and I feel
like those portray death because a dead fish has their eyes shut. Then there were two with baby faces, I feel like those represent his two children, Ean and josh."
I alsolove how you talked about how you could do what she did, because I do not think I could either. But you really did focus on how a lot of family do not eat together and do not want to eat together. You have a way of point out the beauty in things that other people do. So for this blog I do not think you have anthing you need to work on. Goood job.

Ariel said for me,The killer phrase that caught my attention was,"Another point that I think that was good was the fact that she did not have anyone but herself takd care of her husband. Because this is a time where families should be together and spend all time you can with each other.I think that only person/people that should see you at your worst is the people close to you." To me i can see where you are coming from and find it to be true. Death is a stage of your life that should be filled with the last memories being with you family. I cant relate to josh and Ean's son to father relationship because i don't have my father now. Although my dad played a huge role in my life from the day i was born to the age of 7. I was daddy's little girl. Therefore i can partially understand the pain they went through. Beth's love for Erik was immense and i respect her journey with Erik through his death. What i don't seem to understand are her final feelings. Why do you think she didn't cry that much? Can you relate to her emotions or think she was rather "cold"? Do think she is an existentialist or transcendentalist person?

Hw #21

1. We are all going to die so we just need to learn to deal with it.
2. No one was going to take care her husband.
3. Treat him as a person nad the disease.
4. Never talked about death/dying.
5. Postive thoughts.
6. Hallucination when they are close to th end.
7. Honeymoon from death(things seem better but they get bad really fast).
8. Be nice to people to help you get farther in life.
9. Make the moat in life.
10. Ask questions to make sure that you know what is going on.
11. when they are close to the end they stop eating.

I think that the idea of being postive is a good thing. I think that the idea of having to be reminded of the fact that you are sick is going to make you feel even worst and drive you killing your body without even knowing.I would like it if people acted as there was nothing wrong with me so I could leave the thought of dying until I about to die. I feel that the more postive look you have on disease the longer you will with that disease.

Another point that I think that was good was the fact that she did not have anyone but herself takd care of her husband. Because this is a time where families should be together and spend all time you can with each other.I think that only person/people that should see you at your worst is the people close to you.

1. What would you tell someone to help them deal with the pain.
2. If you could have done anything to put yor husband out of his pain would you hvae done it?
3. Why were you so open with the fact that he had an illness?

HW 19 - Family Perspectives on Illness & Dying

In my opinion I think that illness and dying is something that I don't want to think or talk about. I mean I know it is going to happen but I would rather just live life and not thinking about a time where I will no longer think, speak, or anything. But since we are talking about in class it is kind of opening me up to death. I started to see that I am holistic. I think that if you sleep, drink tea, and more you will feel better. I also think that if you have a postive look at it things would be better.

I think that the reason that I think this way is beacuse my mom. She never takes me the doctor. She always says that sleep and tea will make me feel better. She also believes that if your head hurts it means something like you have a lot of angry or if your feet hurt that you are hiding something. My mom believes in mother nature and that things happen for a reason and that if we just look at it in the bigger pivture things will work out for the better.

But other people in my family are not the same. They think that she crazy. they feel that illness is something that you hide and not tell people about. That there is not comimg back once you are to sick. They also run to the doctor for any little thing. They also take pills that they should not be taking but just because they are a little sleepy then normal days they take sleeping pills.