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Good Dead

Submitted by eddy0806 on October 8, 2007

Category: Social Issues
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Introduction
Denying death is natural, and it may even serve as a healthy purpose when we are young, but this denial often becomes harder to maintain when we become older, especially when we are sick and have watched our love ones pass away. The reasons I choose this topic to write about is because I want to know if one day someone I know is suffering a terminal illness, what should I need to be aware of and what I need to do to make the process easier to bear. In many Western countries today, a deeper recognition for the need to improve end-of-life care is gradually emerging. It has been argued that technological advances in medicine have obscured the need for human compassion for the dying and their loved ones. There is also a growing public demand for a more holistic, integrated approach toward health, illness, death and dying.
Nature of Dying
Dying is a nature human process, Sir Francis Bacon once quote that "It is as natural to die as to be born." (Francis, 2004) Which is true because we cannot escape the dying process in our late life and it is hard to deal with physically and mentally. Therefore, how to face the end of life appropriately is consider as one of the most important issue in healthy aging.
Medical view
In the medical view, the body begins the final process of shutting down, there are certain signs of imminent death, "Decreased social interaction - sleeps more, acts confused, coma. Decreased food and fluid intake - no hunger or thirst. Changes in elimination - reduced urine and bowel movements, incontinence. Respiratory changes -irregular
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breathing, "death rattle". Circulatory changes - cold and grayish or purple extremities, decreased heart rate and blood pressure." (Symptom management, 2003) It will end when all the physical systems stop to function – Death. The sighs of death are "Breathing stops completely. Heart beat and pulse stop. Totally unresponsive to shaking and...

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