Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

It is not easy for the sick to communicate their experiences, for it would require— as Virginia Woolf states in her essay “On Being Ill”— “the courage of a lion tamer” (Woolf 583). In illness, there is a “poverty of the language,” to express physical pain, for sickness has never been able to gather its own “vocabulary” (Woolf 583). Finding words to express “this monster” that is illness is frightening; it creates confusion and fear (Woolf 583). As Woolf describes it: “The merest schoolgirl, when…

is it that you’re asking yourself? It’s none other your consciousness. If only there was a way out of this place, only a cure is available right now, if only there was a free path. Now you are trapped in this prison. It begins with ALS(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. ALS is a known disease typical for athletes. It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the…

Holt, Nathalia. "The Case for Fetal-Cell Research." New York Times. 30 Jul. 2015: A.23. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 04 Oct. 2016. (1)This article’s author, a respected microbiologist and celebrated author of Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV, intends to dispel the ethical arguments of the opponents of stem cell research. (2)Holt uses her experiences as a stem cell researcher in the University of South California to explain how fetal cells make their way to the labs, tracing their journey from…

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a brain condition that develops after repeated head trauma. While it is most commonly seen in competitive athletes, CTE has also been seen in those who exhibit self-injuring behavior and victims of domestic abuse. Despite the name, CTE is more progressive than chronic. CTE does not begin to manifest until 10 to 30 years after the player has retired from competitive play. Once CTE begins to appear it progresses within two to three years which is unusually…

radiation and black holes. His view of life is similar to Paddock’s in which they both believe that life is short and must be lived to the fullest. Many people look up to Hawking’s abilities and intelligence despite his severe case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (bio.com). Intelligence goes beyond book smarts; “it is the ability to adapt to change” (Hawkings). Both…

stem cells being studied today have many medical benefits. “Stem cells offer the possibility of a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues to treat a myriad of diseases, conditions, and disabilities including Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury, burns, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis.” (International Stem Cell Forum 4) Why not use these if these embryos that would be destined for medical waste would be used to study human diseases.…

Being Jewish thinkers and talented translators, both Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) have their views and influence on the theories of language and translation in the modern period. They have introduced momentous contributions in the field of language and theory of translation. Benjamin is best known for his magna opera, On Language as Such and on the Language of Man (1916) and The Task of the Translator (1923). The former essay deals directly with the linguistic…

On July Twenty-Sixth, 2012 a survey showed that eighty-three percent (83%) of Canadians, sixty-two percent (62%) of Americans, and eighty-two percent (82%) of British Citizens support the medical euthanization of a terminally ill patient who is said to die within six weeks to end the great deal of physical and mental anguish being experienced by that patient. [1] Euthanasia is moral in nature due to it’s ability to peacefully end an ailing patient’s life in a dignified way to end the pain that…

Euthanasia is a highly debated topic that has been brought up on numerous occasions. The most recent occasion, involving a young lady named Brittany Maynard who moved to Oregon to legally end her life with the help of a physician, is only one of many stories that circulate the topic of euthanasia. The discussion of euthanasia is often associated with abortion, mercy killings, and murder cases. As with most debated topics, there are people who stand firmly on either side of the issue, and those…

not considered a crime in Canada, able-bodied people seeking to end their lives may do so without fearing any sort of criminal persecution afterwards. However, individuals such as Sue Rodriguez, a 42 year old woman suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), a fatal disease that slowly renders people incapable of controlling their own bodies, did not have that option. If she wished to have someone else help her commit suicide after she could no longer control her own body, it would be a…