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-There may not be any symptoms to a sickness until it spreads.
-What happens to the people with these sicknesses is not let out to the whole public.
-Denial is a big stage in dying.
-There are treatments that may slow the process but won't eliminate of the problem.
-As a person continues to die they become more helpless.
-Eric was diagnosed the day before thanksgiving, a day we are supose to be thankful for what we have.
When Beth was telling us about how her Husband got sick she mentioned that there were not really any serious symptoms. There was only one that could connect to kidney cancer but it wasn't something to worry about. This just shows how somebody can be completely healthy one day to having a fatale disease the next. They then start to slowly die away. You will look like a completely normal person and then slowly there will be symptoms and it will spread and sooner or later the body will be too weak to survive.
In many stories about death that I have heard, almost all of them, the person who is dying is in denial at least once during the time they have left. But it seems to fade away as time goes on. Beth was saying how Eric was in denial in the beginning. The word death was not even used around him because it would be upsetting. I think that everybody is scared to die and it has always been like that. Especially in this modern era where theres so many different ideas about it. With science also taking over religion, nobody can know what happens which is the scary part. People find comfort in their lives by knowing they are safe and the ones they care about are safe. Since it's most likely impossible to talk to the dead you can not know what happens when you die which is frightening. Also since your dead you won't be able to look over your loved ones and you'll have no idea how they will survive
Alex,
ReplyDeleteI really like your insights of how someone can be completely fine one day and have a horrible illness the next day. It is very interesting that the word death wasn't used around Eric because he was in denial. Do you think that he was in denial about his death in general or in denial about losing all the important things that he had in life?
Alex I understand that sickness can sneak up on some one but that happens because science is not advanced enough to pick up everything in a persons body. I liked your incite on how people don't know what happens after death but they take comfort in knowing that there with there love ones. I never really thought about death in that way. But I don't agree that religion is being taken over by science. I don't think you have any evidence to prove that.
ReplyDeleteAlex Feldmann,
ReplyDelete"Denial is a big stage in dying." This is a true statement. The sociology course i am currently taking is reviewing the 5 stages of death, denial being the first stage. People going through denial, like the husband in this case, are touchy to the subject of death. I like the idea that you think science is taking over subjects like religion, so when death comes near, people start to wonder where life will take them next. Therefore, i would greatly appreciate you elaborating on that subject.
Thanks