HW 53 - Independent Research A

I found interesting article in the NYT which is related to the "Death" theme.

Making Choices for End-of-Life Care

The new Medicare regulation covering physicians’ discussions with their patients about end-of-life issues is once again under attack by right-wing ideologues. The new rule is specifically designed to give patients the opportunity to explain their wishes about end-of-life care to their personal physicians. It represents a thoughtful and valuable step toward allowing patients to control decisions about their own health care.
It is an ability for the patients to release their thoughts and tell somebody their opinion about the life ending. I found it interesting because it is pretty weird question which maybe in some ways is hard to answer because you are not really imagine that how is their life will end but they have a choices and ability to wish how they want to make a thing which would be memorable to other members of the family and to the friends. It is their own choice which will be not judgemental.
"The proposal in the health care reform legislation to encourage physicians to counsel patients and their families regarding end-of-life issues was welcomed by the vast majority of health care providers. Its exclusion from the final bill was a disservice to Americans.
Modern medicine has much to offer to critically ill patients, but too often life-supporting technologies are employed with little or no hope of recovering to a meaningful existence. Pre-emptive contemplation and advisement is essential to a person’s well-being.
Advance directives, or “living wills,” are statements made by an individual dictating his or her wishes for end-of-life treatment and offer great comfort to families who are confronted with difficult choices in a crisis.
People’s end-of-life wishes should be discussed in advance with their physician, who knows them well, rather than nervously discussed with an unfamiliar provider with whom they have no personal relationship"
I totally agree with this article because I think that each family should get a special help and good support of physican specialists for FREE.

Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live

In this article author discuss abouth how the health care center should motivate their patients and make them understand that there is always a reason to fight for the live and you should never give up. Health center employs always should be helpful and pay deep attention to their patients and also help them morally because this is one of the important things of the supporting.

I asked my Mom's friend who spent 6 years in funeral service and my questions were about the families which placed orders in their service.I asked about the feelings while this process is going. He told me that it depends from the religion of the people because there are many religions that makes people to believe in death differently and all of their feelings and maner of speech depends from this thing.Most of them were sad but some people looked very normal and seemed that they understand that the death is a natural process but also very significant to spend the time to do the things they should do about the funeral.