When facing a terminal illness, many emotions are thrown around in the situation as well as the fact of learning one is ill. As Beth described for her husband were feelings of denial, how could he of all people be unwell. In My brother, the main character didn’t know whether or not she loved him but she did feel sorrow for man she never got to know. (162) In Stigma, the feelings others have towards the sick or dying changes because the people who knew you as “normal” healthy person have hard time accepting you ill and dying and the new people you meet just see you as another person who is simply faulted. (35)
Illness and death can be the part of life one feels the most isolated, when one becomes sick immediately sent to hospital to be either cured or comforted for what is to come. Usually this time spent here may have family come by time to time, but unfortunately the world doesn’t just stop for you when become ill so find yourself lying in a hospital bed staring at wall in front of you. Must also face fact that we all get old which most of the time means having to go to a “home” but it is weird that we call them homes when it indeed is not our home. It is a place where one sends the old so no longer have to care for them our self. In Stigma they talk about this feeling of isolation that one has when ill because we are no longer “normal” person so we are isolated out of this group of people (5)
Paying for medical care in the US can be a hardship because it is not available for everyone. Michael Moore shows this in Sicko of how one must meet certain requirements to be able to have insurance of how a costly it can be if don’t have insurance or when insurance doesn’t want to provide it for you. Historically healthcare insurance wasn't always about being a business but on Feb 18, 1971 Nixon and Edgar make it so we get less and less medical care while insurance companies gain more and more money.
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