Insights & Experiences
1. Seeing a love one dying in front of you.
2. Seeing each state of them dying.
3. "Bittersweet", because her husband was diagnosed thanksgiving eve.
4. How both her sons had different effects during the time he was sick and after he died.
5. Not like the movies.
Beth coming in today and sharing her story was a bit of an emotional topic for me, even though I don't have much experience with death in my life. But hearing someone who saw their love ones basically parish in front of them, was tough to imagine, and made me keep constantly asking myself, "what if this happened to me?” and "wow they seem to handle it pretty well, by being able to share this with us". Because if I lost someone that close to me, I’d probably be depressed for years, and couldn't even have the courage to talk about it. One of the things she said today that I found interesting was when she said, "it was a bittersweet moment" when her husband was diagnosed thanksgiving eve. It showed me how much a holiday means to people, and how we've been taught to see thanksgiving as this holiday where it's all about family, which is where I can see why that was a bit bitter, because it's suppose to be a holiday that's about being around family, and to be told that you may lose a relative the day before a family holiday sounds, and in a way is heart wrenching. The other part that I found powerful was Beth's dedication in taking care of Eric, cleaning feeding, basically everything for him, instead of have him being taken cared of by "strangers", which is something that most of the times is common, and to want to have that relative in their home, and have them die their to me is much better than having them die somewhere where thousands of others died around strangers. Beth not having the fear and not minding having her husband die in front of her at her home was powerful, because it seems like she'd be constantly reminded of him from the beginning to the end.
i thought that your post had a lot of meaning to it. it sounds like you pretty much sumed up everything she had to say. i like how you talked about how she wanted to take care of him and when he died in the house, it was as if they were together from beginning to end. and that is a very good way to see it as. it really brings out the true meaning of wedding vowels. til death due us part.
ReplyDeletefor your next post, maybe you could come up with another situation that could be related to what the speaker was talking about. something else we talked about in class, or someone told you once before.