Back in the days, he was constantly surrounded by his two children and wife, but was left with none now. Loneliness and solitude haunted him because of the fact that he could not move, feed nor bath himself. He could not speak at all. What was there to live for? That’s when autonomy ethics become challenging when respecting a patient. In the case of Bauby, autonomy could be fulfilled using the systematic process created by his therapist; however, it needed others willingness to listen and connect with him. The title “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is the metaphor he uses to resemble his life situation throughout the memoir. It comes from Bauby’s doctrine that although his body was submerged in a diving bell- unable to move- his mind (imagination, thought and memory) remain as free as a butterfly and its flights are as random. In fact, he also names one of his chapters “bedridden travel notes’ which poignantly unfolds his life journey through
Back in the days, he was constantly surrounded by his two children and wife, but was left with none now. Loneliness and solitude haunted him because of the fact that he could not move, feed nor bath himself. He could not speak at all. What was there to live for? That’s when autonomy ethics become challenging when respecting a patient. In the case of Bauby, autonomy could be fulfilled using the systematic process created by his therapist; however, it needed others willingness to listen and connect with him. The title “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is the metaphor he uses to resemble his life situation throughout the memoir. It comes from Bauby’s doctrine that although his body was submerged in a diving bell- unable to move- his mind (imagination, thought and memory) remain as free as a butterfly and its flights are as random. In fact, he also names one of his chapters “bedridden travel notes’ which poignantly unfolds his life journey through