Hw 32

During the course of this unit I got to explore many of the nightmarish social practices surrounding aspects of illness and dying, that I found to be quite eye opening. Before this unit I never really sat down and thought or talked much about death because of its depressing nature, but now I realize that it is worth talking about. We are all part of the dominant social practices surrounding illness and dying and it’s up to us to start approaching them differently. I would want to talk more about death and how I want to die with my family instead of waiting till I’m hooked up to medical equipment in a hospital dying a slow death, alone and feeling isolated from everyone. It’s sort of nightmarish to think that so many people die alone in hospitals when that might not be what they want, but they never expressed their thoughts on end of life care or how they wanted to die. I also took away a more positive approach to the idea of dying because after all, death is inevitable and something we will all experience, but in different ways.