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Facing terminal illness- The idea of you knowing that you or someone else you know is going to pass away has to be one of the most scariest and sad things that you will experience in your life. With some people it's easier to grasp the idea that someone besides yourself is going to die. There is a time in everyone s life where you clearly understand that you are going to die and after a while it isn't that terrifying anymore. A great example is from Tuesdays with Morrie (pg 36) "You know how i'm going to die? he said . I raised my eyebrows. I'm going to suffocate. yes. My lungs, because of my asthma, can't handle the disease. It's moving up my body, this ALS. It's already got my legs. Pretty soon it'll get my arms and hands. SAnd when it hits my lungs..." This shows that Morrie has come a conclusion that his life is almost over and he barely has any time left.

Process of Dying- I honestly believe that the process of dying has to be one of the worst things ever, for the person thats dying and the family members and friends that have to watch and go through the process as well. When the guess speaker came in and explain that her husband had cancer and the process she and her kids had to go through to take care of him and be there for him, it made me realize how hard that most be. One insight she said was that her husband never believed that he was going to die he though that maybe a miracle would happen or then would cure him and things would be better. Even though he knew deep inside things were not changing for the better he still stuck with that plan. It was also so interesting how his process of dying brought the family together but also teared them apart. When she explain that the older son never really got to visit his father when he was sick, that shows that the death of someone can really be hard on the people that know they are going to spend the rest of their lives without he/she being there. Throughout that whole speech you feel extremely sorry for the family's lost but you also get some insight on what it is like to deal with the death of someone that is very close.

Being sick- Even though I don't remember ever being sick to the point where I had to go to the hospital. My mother told me when i was a baby I almost died because one of my kidneys failed and i had to have surgery so they could get rid of it. While my mother told me this story the only thing i could thing about was what if the surgery wasn't successful and I did die How would that affect my love ones?and How would their lives be different? Before this topic came up in class there was never a time where i would talk to my parents about illness or dying because i never wanted to talk about it because I feared it.