From Felipe(T/W Team), has not commented yet
From Spencer (Younger Peer),
I like how you showed how even people with a "tough guy image" show sadness for things like suffering from disease. The issue of if Medicare should spend money keeping the dying alive is very controversial and I agree with your insight that if someone wants to die at home, he/she should die in comfort instead of in a hospital attached to machines.
From Amanda (T/W Team),
i like that you talked about the moral issue of in hospital care, and not just the financial issue. and i also enjoyed at the end how you talked about your friends emotions and not just his grandmothers condition. your post shows several different points of view on the same topic i enjoyed that, nice work.
your friend, amanda
From Sarker-Dad (Mentor),
You picked up an interesting and real life-related issue. I commend your strive to explore the agony of a terminally ill patient and relatives in the dying process. Honestly, I didn't know the term 'hospice' and I have learned about two types 'hospice' cares. Also have learned a big budget is also spent on such patients in their last two years of life.
I liked the last para, where you portrait the sufferings of a dying person and feelings and emotional involvement of other concerned people. This is a dilemma that most of us probably have to encounter in a way or other. We have to make tough decisions about our beloved once and young people like you need to start realizing it.
Man is mortal, no one can live in this world forever, however, most of us probably would like to see our close relatives to be in this world as much as possible. We tend to support their treatment as much as possible but the wish of dying person is also of paramount value, if one can respond their consent should be taken before taking the vital decision of giving up. Hope is key in life, we need to uphold it, may be new research or discovery may find new treatment for such dying patients.
I would encourage you to see the 'hope' of miracle treatment of such patients. Drawing up conclusions on a single or few dying patient might not reflect valuable emotional feelings of millions. Budget might not be that big consideration for keeping alive few more days of our beloved one. I would suggest you see both sides of an issue more closely and draw a conclusion at the end basing on credible findings.
All the best,
Sarwar Sarker
Parent
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For Amanda (T/W Team),
Amanda,
As always, it was a pleasure to read your blog. It provided many insights as to how limited people can be when thinking that helping other people is an act against nature. When people say doctors are playing God, then what about when a baby that is about to be born starts showing some dangerous condition that might claim his/her life and a doctor saves that baby? So my understanding would be that God never intended that baby to live. Is that doctor playing God? It weird how no one ever asks THAT question and yet it’s also normal for people not to ask that question. The best part of your writing was when you mentioned all the injustice that was happening to a man that was only trying to help others. Bianca did her project on the same topic and I found her blog very insightful as well so you should check it out if you have time. I don’t know if you watched it or not but she also has a link to a very interesting (and heartbreaking) video on her blog that goes through a man’s journey as he travels to Switzerland for his assisted suicide.
For Felipe (T/W Team),
Felipe,
I think your blog was very neatly crafted. I am referring to how you started with the scientific research and moved to the extremely emotional and personal story about your grandfather. This may sound crude but I actually enjoyed the whole fiasco that was brought on by the untimely deaths of your grandfather’s immediate family’s death. I liked how you touched on the key aspects of what could lead to someone being traumatized and how we can see similar psychological symptoms in almost everyone. Makes us realize that no matter how different we try to be, we are still all very similar and that is normal which means that it is weird…
