a. Life Expectancy/pg. 360: The number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live.
We all expect to live a full and prosperous life. When children are born, the parents expect that the children will far out live them in the number of years of life. As we grow up, we start to see how normal aging affects that one person but we also can see what the aging of one person does to an entire family. The average life expectancy in America is about eighty years. In theory, this is both long and short. It is long compared to a lot of other countries who have life expectancies under sixty years, but also short in the aspect that we see people live to be one hundred years old in some cases. In Libby, the life expectancy …show more content…
Earlier we talked about how when children are born we expect them to by far out live the parents. Well, in the documentary we meet one kid, who is more of an adult probably in his early thirties, who is ill with disease and does not look at living a full life. They say burying your child will be the lowest day in your life, and in our society, this holds true. We all expect children, born years after the parents have been born, to by far out live its parents. In some cases, this is not true, and psychologically this destroys the parents. Life expectancy is just that, only expected. It is not written in a contract somewhere the day that you will die. It is not determined who will get deadly diseases. All this stuff just happens, but we still can expect to see tomorrow. If we would just slow down, take it all day by day, …show more content…
The entire thing is about health. Not only the health of the people which we will delve into, but also the health of the town of Libby as a society. Health covers a wide range of important pieces of human survival. First, we can talk about the physical health. Physically these people are ill from the vermiculite plant. They are acquiring lung disease and losing mobility. Some of the people we met in the documentary talked about barely being able to walk. The second piece of health to talk about is the mental side. Mentality affects the body in more ways than a lot of people realize. Mentally, the people of Libby are exhausted. They are tired of worrying, tired of not knowing what is going to happen. They got the run around from the government. If people are drained mentally, the other three components start to deteriorate also. The third piece to talk about is the social aspect of health. Social wise, these people are unable to get out and communicate or see people due to their decreased physical and mental states. The final piece is the spiritual side of the health of people. A healthy mind can grab on to a spiritual greater being. We need to have the spiritual connection to rationalize what is going on in the world. These health topics keep the people sane. The human body is a crazy thing. All the health areas must cooperate to be healthy. Once one of these pieces start to deteriorate the entire human body
We all expect to live a full and prosperous life. When children are born, the parents expect that the children will far out live them in the number of years of life. As we grow up, we start to see how normal aging affects that one person but we also can see what the aging of one person does to an entire family. The average life expectancy in America is about eighty years. In theory, this is both long and short. It is long compared to a lot of other countries who have life expectancies under sixty years, but also short in the aspect that we see people live to be one hundred years old in some cases. In Libby, the life expectancy …show more content…
Earlier we talked about how when children are born we expect them to by far out live the parents. Well, in the documentary we meet one kid, who is more of an adult probably in his early thirties, who is ill with disease and does not look at living a full life. They say burying your child will be the lowest day in your life, and in our society, this holds true. We all expect children, born years after the parents have been born, to by far out live its parents. In some cases, this is not true, and psychologically this destroys the parents. Life expectancy is just that, only expected. It is not written in a contract somewhere the day that you will die. It is not determined who will get deadly diseases. All this stuff just happens, but we still can expect to see tomorrow. If we would just slow down, take it all day by day, …show more content…
The entire thing is about health. Not only the health of the people which we will delve into, but also the health of the town of Libby as a society. Health covers a wide range of important pieces of human survival. First, we can talk about the physical health. Physically these people are ill from the vermiculite plant. They are acquiring lung disease and losing mobility. Some of the people we met in the documentary talked about barely being able to walk. The second piece of health to talk about is the mental side. Mentality affects the body in more ways than a lot of people realize. Mentally, the people of Libby are exhausted. They are tired of worrying, tired of not knowing what is going to happen. They got the run around from the government. If people are drained mentally, the other three components start to deteriorate also. The third piece to talk about is the social aspect of health. Social wise, these people are unable to get out and communicate or see people due to their decreased physical and mental states. The final piece is the spiritual side of the health of people. A healthy mind can grab on to a spiritual greater being. We need to have the spiritual connection to rationalize what is going on in the world. These health topics keep the people sane. The human body is a crazy thing. All the health areas must cooperate to be healthy. Once one of these pieces start to deteriorate the entire human body