Hw - 32 Final Thoughts

From the start, going into the topic of Illness and Dying was gonna be a learning experience, its a topic that most avoid even though it's all around us and our reactions to it are all completely different. From birth to our development of our conscious, we are taught on how to deal with death or illness depending on what our parents views are. It's a funny thought to see that life is seen as the day our eyes open, but the countdown to death begins at that same moment. What really stuck out to me during this unit was that our physicalities set us apart as humans, the elderly are categorized as the sick or weak, or soon to be dead and our youth is seen as lively and energentic. But our mental stability to see a lot of commonalities with life as a whole brings fourth a sense of connectiveness and a relationship almost all can relate too. Reading Tuesdays with Morrie brought fourth a lot of these interesting "connected thoughts" and as the charatcer, Morrie, who is ill and soon to die, accepts his fate and in return embraces more of the things and people around him to understand the relationships he shares with others. Interviewing my cousin about this topic who has sickle-cell disease, he also sees that life is delicate and in a instant we could dissapear so why not make the best out of things, which is a sense that most people share even if your not sick. For myself, the existential aspect of life has changed because of the experiences I've shared with everyone in this topic and what I've learned from them as well.