From Ben: I liked the way you were able to connect this unit to your thoughts about certain health-related aspects of life in the future. I also really liked the way you used evidence from other peoples blogs in order to support the conclusions of your own opinions. "Our country needs to sort out its priorities." This was a very interesting line to me, because in my opinion, it seems like the country already has sorted out its priorities for health care. They just are not beneficial for most people in America.
From Devin: I think you've summarized the problem areas concerning death and dying in our culture. You are definitely right that socialized medicine is a hard sell in this country, especially when the Republicans are the majority in the House of Representitives. I still hope we come around to having the government pay for health care instead of having it be a means of insurance and drug companies making huge profits. Your other big point about ideally having people feel that they have had fufilled lives so that when they reach the age of 75 or so, they are more accepting of death and their time to go. Staying alive on life support with no quality of life whatsoever is so depressing and such a waste. People should go home to die. Most of us wouldn't put a dying dog on life support. We would just make it as comfortable as possible. I hope everyone will hold me to this belief when my time comes.
From Bjorn (Exchange Student): As a citizen of Sweden with one of the best social health care institution in the world i totally agree with you. As a son of the swedish social democracy I am used to tax paying of swedish citizens to keep the health care going, although as you mention it is questionable whether a people that are used to take care of themselves rather than paying for others ar willing to change.
From Lindsay (Sister): Reading these posts has made me reflect back on when I first started to develop an awareness of the volume of death. The first time I read what has now become one of my favorite books one of the characters reflected,"Awareness is everything...People worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand."
Making the connection back to everyone in your class considering whether they would be satisfied with their lives with the stories you collected of people nearing the end of their lives, really brings life to the subject.
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To Ben: I really liked your summary. I think it was nice how you connected it back to the food unit in order to show how the two relate. I agree with you, that it is "sickening" that our health care system has such incentives that it sometimes ignores its own people without them realising. It would be extremely interesting to see how people would react if many more were educated about the American health care system. Perhaps people would want a change, or maybe not.
To Devin: I liked how in your last paragraph you talked about how people should be reacting. I think the big question is, why aren't they? I think though that in America you might come across more people focused on funding the army than their own insurance, because they will take their health for granted. The American mindset at the moment seems to be set more on protecting our "great" country instead of improving it. I wonder if it would be possible to convince the majority otherwise.
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