We live in a world with advanced medical resources but there is not a cure for every disease. There are many illnesses that have no cure and only guarantee prolong suffrage. In the Doctor Oz. Show Dana explained her story of being was discovered with Degenerative Neuromuscular disease which disabled her to move and only worsen as time progressed to the point where she was unable to do the simple things. She had to rely on someone for everything the only thing she only had the capacity to speak. Dana stated that she was “physically and mentally tired” and she was only waiting to die “naturally” and relied on all the prescribed drugs given to her because according to the doctors she was
Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health What is the value of a life? Do family members always have the patients’ best interest in mind when making medical decisions? Who should ultimately make the decision of life or death for patients that will never leave a permanent vegetative state? Lester and Joyce Cruzan faced an issue no parent ever wants to face after their daughter, Nancy was in a horrific car accident that left her in a persistent vegetative state.
But we have doctors and technology that is advanced that we can live through it, Mattie and the people of her time did
She is only transported back through time when his life is in danger. Since Dana is a Black woman and Kevin, her husband is White, she would have to adjust to things that perhaps she wouldn't have thought about. In the past it was a terribly, unusual thing. Dana says, “You, uh ... don’t have any relatives or anything who’ll give you a hard time about me, do you?”
Clyde Haberman’s article From Private Ordeal to National Fight: The Case of Terri Schiavo emphasizes social responsibility through a woman’s diagnosis of irreversible brain damage. Terri Schiavo suffered many years because the people around her were still emotionally attached to the memories they had of her. “For 15 years, Terri Schiavo was effectively a slave- slave to an atrophied brain that made her a prisoner in her own body…” (1). Terri Schiavo’s quality of life deteriorated as she spent her last years attached to a feeding tube. Schiavo’s parents and husband had total compelling arguments about what was best for Schiavo because both perspectives saw her differently.
yet they were unable to protect her from becoming a CSEC victim. One of Dana’s strengths is being open to receiving drug treatment thus, she is receptive
When a patient is told they have a disease, they are shocked. Some patients worry that they may die, and others feel numb or confused about it. They may have a hard time realizing that their disease could be fatal. “When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different” (Skloot 276).
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is known as an invisible illness. It is invisible because a person can physically appear fine, but they suffer chronic pain and frequent dislocations due to a defect in collagen production. Without knee braces and other assistive devices, I look normal. Quickly after my diagnosis, I was confined to a wheelchair for a period.
Hershey feels that there is evidence in society that the majority feel that people with disabilities need to be “fixed” or “cured”. Hershey also feels that the majority feel that the problem should just “go away”. The passage that best supports this, she goes on to say “one of my major objections to the telethon is the way it reinforces that attitude.” Hershey goes on to explain that some people with disabilities keep quiet instead of demanding their basic human needs to be met. I was struck by Hershey stating “we’ll never recognize them if we stay focused on curing individuals of disability, rather than making changes to accommodate disability into our culture.”
As he got older he tended to act on emotions. For example, Rufus wants her to stay and hurts people without thinking first. Their relationship is officially and finally severed when Dana kills him. This needed to be done because Rufus wanted something Dana was never going to give him, which was being physically involved with
Dana Plato (a former actress) was found dead due to her overdosing on painkillers,it's not uncommon for people to die from an “ accidental overdose”. This is similar to a passage from the book Farenheit 451 when Mildred is found “uncovered and cold” with an empty bottle of sleeping pills spinning on the floor. These two events are similar because both of them mention not only the use of drugs but also how both of the women abused them. The women used these drugs to escape their unhappy life. They wanted an escape so they resorted to drugs that were meant to help them but hurt them instead .
In Frank Furedi’s reading, “Our Unhealthy Obsession with Sickness”, he concludes that the health care crisis which we are going through will not change nor get better. To some extent I agree with Mr. Furedi’s writing. He discusses how in recent times, people in society are normalizing having an illness and are willingly open to talking about them (471). Furedi also mentioned how people now embrace having an illness, rather than noticing their worth before they were sick. I too have noticed that it is becoming increasingly acceptable to the extent that people want something to be wrong with them, which I find extremely odd.
Dana tells Sarah how Alice committed suicide. Sarah replies:. “Oh Lord Poor child. He finally killed her... Even if he didn’t put the rope on her, he drove her to it.
She died with a lethal dose of barbiturates. So this is also one argument that if
Imagine being unable to walk, unable to speak, unable to move and unable to breathe. Imagine being in a state of complete paralysis where the only thing that keeps on functioning is your brain, and you live chained to a machine doctors call life support. Imagine being told that you have an incurable disease that will inevitably kill you. Maybe next month. Maybe next year.
Brittany Maynard has been fed up with the government making medical decisions for her and patients in the same situation as her. This is what was on her mind “How dare the government make decisions for terminally ill people like me. Unfortunately, California law prevented me from getting the end of life option I deserved. No one should have to leave their home and community for a gentle death.” She has set things right for terminally ill patients in California.