In this unit, I'm not entirely sure if the insights I gained were actually insightful. It seems to me that the nature of this unit and the feelings and actions associated with it are highly subjective. What I might value or see as a new piece of information may in fact be old news to the masses. Additionally, most of the given sources for this unit didn't seem to 'click' in my head. I found the most useful information I gathered came from our class discussions rather than Sicko or Tuesdays with Morrie. Regardless, I found that even in pretend situations like when we were setting up scenes in the beginning of the unit, it's an automatic reaction for us to distance ourselves from the sick and dying. While that makes sense in terms of self preservation, it's also the thought of dying because someone refused to help me when they could have is a scary one.
Another important idea that kept coming up in our discussions was the idea that death happens to happens to all of us and that we should simply accept it. It's easy to say and it's easy believe in when that idea is getting applied to ourselves but what about for other people? Don't mothers and fathers always get devastated when they have to see their child suffer a strong illness or die? Doesn't the majority of people get upset when they hear of bad things happening to children? If your husband or wife was sick, would you really just shrug your shoulders and say "Oh, well. This was going to happen eventually." Does that make us hypocrites? If people are supposed to be selfish, why do we suddenly value the lives of others above our own at times?
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