Alexa Kersting's Argumentative Essay

Stephanie Keene was born at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia, the United States. At the time of her birth, she was missing most of her brain, including the cortex; only the brainstem, the portion of the brain responsible for autonomic and regulatory functions, such as the control of respiration, the heartbeat and blood pressure, had developed during pregnancy. Keene 's mother had been notified of her condition following ultrasonography,and was advised to terminate the pregnancy by her obstetrician and neonatologist but chose to carry the child to term because of "a firm Christian faith that all life should be protected. "The hospital believed that care provided to the baby would be futile,while the mother believed mechanical breathing support must

Being a parent can be challenging enough, but being a single, widowed parent can be unbearable. “I’ll never see the world as I once saw it,” Taylor utters (Page 70). Taylor published this book four years after the death of her beloved husband. When the reader reaches the last page of this book, her purpose is revealed. Taylor did not want pity regarding his death.

Helen Keller The life of Helen Keller born June 27, 1880 to Kate Adams Keller and Captain Arthur Keller, A Confederate Civil War Veteran. Keller became ill at19 months of age this illness left her blind, deaf, and mute. At age six the Keller family has a break through with commutation. Captain Keller had hired a tutor name Anne Sullivan she herself was visually impaired.

Life is a continuous story filled with good and bad, and mine is no different. My sister was born premature with spina bifida, that lead to the implantation of a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt for her survival. Since birth she does not have full sensation below her hip; she has been unable to move her left leg and has limited motion of her right leg. She experienced a difficult childhood because she faced numerous medical problems that required many hospital visits. During those hospital visits, my parents did not have anyone to look after me, therefore they took me along with them.

This essay discusses the Terri Schiavo 's case during the time period between 1990 and 2005.After Ms. Schiavo suffers cardiac arrest, lack of oxygen leads her brain to damage. As a result of this damage, she had to be given a PEG tube to continue her life in the vegetative state. Her husband is appointed as guardian by the court, and Terri 's family do not reject that. Michael Schiavo-her husband- receives about $300,000 and about $750,000 for Ms. Schiavo’s medical care. After three years, he demands the PEG to be removed.

Becky was a 23-year-old girl who got diagnosed with a melanoma after she saw an irregular mole on the back of her leg. She said she started tanning at 17 with her mom and got a tan 2-3 times a week once she started college. She is now 27 and does not know whether or not her cancer will come back. Becky’s story is only one of many, so many people use tanning beds not knowing what they do to them or not caring. Parents encourage their kids to tan even if they know the consequences and no one is saying anything.

At the age of five my one-year-old sister had a stroke, it took many months for research aids to diagnose her. She has a rare disease called Fibro-Muscular Displeasure, which caused her arteries to be very small causing blockage to the brain. Because of this my mother had to be in the hospital for 9 months alongside her. During this time I felt as if I didn’t have a mother and I resented my sister for taking her away from me.

People  who underwent the experiments were mentally scarred forever. In the account of eva kor she said she will never forget what josef mengele did to her and her sister. She said she went through a series of injects that made her fever rise. Eva and her sister both survived  but the experiment caused cause problems with both their kidney problem and later cancer which the believed to be linked to the experiments. Merriam died in 1993.Eva has forever wanted to know what she has been injected with  but has never found out.

Emily had been diagnosed with a yolk sac tumor at 18 months old. Eventually, a doctor managed to nearly take out all of the cancer but Emily still died during her last chemotherapy session. Emily was given a dose of an improperly IV bag that was made by the hospital’s pharmacy technician.

Once she recovered, I had to help her learn to walk again. Soon after, I feared losing my grandfather, my only father figure, when he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. His diagnosis caused me to become very anxious and affected my academics. Everything I went through was like a pit of fear, that

Doctors were hesitant to perform surgery on her, because of her age. Maria did not flaunt or hide her disease she just lived her life. Four months after she received her first communion on April 30, 1961 her parents her parents took her to the lourdess Shrine, hoping that she would be cured and become the healthy child she had been at age four. A cure did not happen. Her parents next took her to visit

Federal Advanced Directive Advanced directives became a national topic of discussion following the passage of the 1976 California Natural Death Act otherwise known as the Natural Death Law, Death with Dignity Acts, or Living Will Acts. California passed the law in 1976 after a 31 year old woman, Karen Ann Quinlan, slipped into a coma, was hooked up to life support equipment and her parent’s request “that the respirator be disconnected and that their daughter be allowed to die 'with grace and dignity, ' because there was no hope she would recover” (McFaden, R., 1985). Quinlan was connected to a respirator for a year while her parents argued for her rights, the law went into effect in 1977. The law confirmed the rights of the terminally

Her mother didn’t become deaf until she was 13 months old. She had spinal meningitis and because of this she went deaf. She was getting shots for the meningitis, but after the fifth they decided to stop the shots and after they stop the relapse was what caused the deafness. It was very hard for Doris Jean because she was already starting to say some words. After the second fever, she went deaf and wouldn’t talk for years and when she did start talking, no one understood her.

Brittany Maynard chose to the “Death with Dignity” option after learning that she only had six months to live after her brain cancer became more aggressive and turned to a grade 4 glioblastoma. She moved from California to Oregon in order to legally receive a prescription of a lethal dose of barbiturates. Oregonis one of five states in the U.S that has the passed the Death with Dignity Act. Brittany chose this option because she did not want to go through radiation or live the last of her days in pain while her family watched. Brittany stated, “Because the rest of my body is young and healthy, I m likely to physically hang on for a long time even though cancer is eating my mind, and my family would have to watch that,” (page 565).

This disease is especially concerning for the elderly population. Among those killed was 68 year old mother and grandmother, Bertie Marble. On her second trip to the Flint Medical Center, Marble weakly told her daughter that she “didn 't know what was wrong.” She stayed in the hospital for weeks and died there after her heart had stopped twice. Although her death certificate read “cardiac arrest brought on by septic shock due to pneumonia”, deeper in her medical records legionella is mentioned multiple times.