Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Facing Death (due 3/4 Mar; followup by Fri 6 March)

What did you think about this video?  Some of you watched it before in our Death & Dying class, but I wonder what you and the others think now, after this course, about the situation of dying in the ICU, dying in ways that most of us say (at least) that we don't want, and not getting as much time to make our peace with dying?
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  1. Unknown09 March, 2015 15:08

    This video was very depressing, and it reminded me of the novel we have to read, Being Mortal. Because of the technology we have today, more people are coming to die in the ICU, and it is unfortunate because this is the way we are beginning to see death. We all have that hope that someone one come out of it and pull through, and they'll go through treatments like this for the 'possibility' to go home. It saddens me. It makes me rethink what I would do in a situation like this. I don't know if I would want to go through such rigorous treatment only to reach the end in a manner that makes me suffer.

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  2. Unknown12 March, 2015 15:17

    As Zach said, this video was depressing, just as was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Just as in Death and Dying, this video really makes me think about my mortality and all the ways I do not want to die. I don't want to die in the ICU because it seems like modern medicine almost gives people hope that they could survive but then steals that hope away as the disease ultimately takes over and kills them. I guess the question is "Is it better to be given hope, then lose it? Or to never be given hope in the first place?"

    Videos like these are a sort of double-edged sword to me. On one side they make me really think about what I would want done in these situations, which is good because I can inform others of that before a situation like these might arise. On the other hand, they really make me think about my mortality and the finality of death. This is bad in a sense because it is depressing; it really takes a toll on my mood. So they serve as a sort of necessary evil, you know?

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