What I have learned:
- That dying contains many mixed emotions, for those who are dying and those close to the person in question. For example, when Beth visited the class she told us that for a while she didn't think about death or that it may happen to her husband. She pushed it to the back of her mind and decided it wasn't something to worry about. But when her husband died, she had no choice but to think about it. So, you kind of realize that death flips everything upside down and probably whatever you don't want to think about, you end up thinking about it.
- Documentaries may seem real, and some are, but often times directors will do different things to pursuade you, and they will show you so much that you agree with that eventually you forget the main argument of the movie. We saw this in Sicko, how Michael Moore strayed from the point all the time by telling us about laundry in France, or people who don't have healthcare insurance when the movie was originally about people who are covered.
-It seems as though the healthcare and insurance everywhere else is better than America's, it may be exaggerated slightly, but it is still true. Truth sucks.
-Doctors may not care on an emotional level, but they are not total jerks. They use what they logically think is the best course of action, and think with their brains, not their hearts, which is often the right thing to do.
The most helpful sources, have probably been the movies and Beth's presentation. This way we get a visual of death and illness.
I think it's important to study how we live, and how we take our health for granted.
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