A Righteously Acceptable Death
Rushing towards room 45A, nurses make their way through the busy halls with medical carts swerving at every corner. With shoes squeaking, people’s screams echoing throughout the hospital, and phones ringing, doctors block out all this commotion and desperately hurry to make it on time. Inside the room, worried faces surround the unconscious patient with sweat and tears coming down like an endless waterfall. Twenty-seven sets of chest compressions are performed, three bags of IV fluid are injected, and millions of tubes are placed all over the patient’s body, and yet there’s no sign of recovery. After several weeks of repeating the same, suspenseful process, the ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) individual’s mind, body, and soul gradually changes to one of helplessness, sorrow, and …show more content…
Shrieking, weeping, and always wishing for the pain to finally stop are all part of the process of suffering. They bring people down and obstruct them from retaining their full capacities. For example, if an individual gets diagnosed with cancer and only has six more months to live, he would constantly have to go through dialysis or chemotherapy, which weakens his body and gives him severe pain. He then would not be able to enjoy doing many things with his family. Being diagnosed with a terminal illness instigates misery for the family as well. In the essay, “A Crime of Compassion”, Huttmann states that not only does Mac, who is the terminally ill patient, “lose his youth, his wit, his macho… [But also] Maura transforms from a young woman into a haggard, beaten old lady” (Huttmann 816). So by getting prescribed medication from a doctor, to stop his agony and hasten death, he would not have to endure feeling miserable every week for the rest of his remaining life or see his family encounter hardships and subsiding along with
Rushing towards room 45A, nurses make their way through the busy halls with medical carts swerving at every corner. With shoes squeaking, people’s screams echoing throughout the hospital, and phones ringing, doctors block out all this commotion and desperately hurry to make it on time. Inside the room, worried faces surround the unconscious patient with sweat and tears coming down like an endless waterfall. Twenty-seven sets of chest compressions are performed, three bags of IV fluid are injected, and millions of tubes are placed all over the patient’s body, and yet there’s no sign of recovery. After several weeks of repeating the same, suspenseful process, the ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) individual’s mind, body, and soul gradually changes to one of helplessness, sorrow, and …show more content…
Shrieking, weeping, and always wishing for the pain to finally stop are all part of the process of suffering. They bring people down and obstruct them from retaining their full capacities. For example, if an individual gets diagnosed with cancer and only has six more months to live, he would constantly have to go through dialysis or chemotherapy, which weakens his body and gives him severe pain. He then would not be able to enjoy doing many things with his family. Being diagnosed with a terminal illness instigates misery for the family as well. In the essay, “A Crime of Compassion”, Huttmann states that not only does Mac, who is the terminally ill patient, “lose his youth, his wit, his macho… [But also] Maura transforms from a young woman into a haggard, beaten old lady” (Huttmann 816). So by getting prescribed medication from a doctor, to stop his agony and hasten death, he would not have to endure feeling miserable every week for the rest of his remaining life or see his family encounter hardships and subsiding along with