Different ways to die

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             Since Lucinda's religion has directly influenced her choice of work, she has a bias to the way that her son has chosen to face his decisions. She seems to be more concerned with the sins he has had in his life rather than accepting him as a dying man that needs the care of his family. He loves his mother dearly, but when family turns against someone and pulls the religion card on their life, people tend to push their family away. .
             C-"Medicine is customarily seen as a battle against death", but the eliminations of death can lead to the "quantity of life at the expense of the quality of life." (118).
             D-"attempts of modernist medicine to prolong life at all costs and the support for cats of "passive euthanasia" hospice practitioners have show that they are not averse to welcoming the onset of biological death. Euthanasia represents a more extreme form of individualism which rejects the embrace of the caring community."(184) .
             E-Hospice focuses on the quality rather than the quantity of life-emotional, spiritual and practical support-enforces that death is a normal process.
             Medical Technology:.
             C-"the role of Medical technology as it centers on question of controlling life and death turns in part upon the realization that such means are finite in availability and effect.".
             D-"Medicine plays an important part in providing answers to pressing existential questions even thought the primary purpose of medicine has been to proved a technical means for resisting the effects of nature and our embodiment." (75).
             "Medicine can therefore be understood as containing some of the most fundamental classificatory ideas of our culture [to] divide the healthy from the diseased and the living form the dead" (75).
             G-"Through advances in medical technology, some patients who formerly would have died can now be kept alive by artificial means [ a] treatment may be undesirable because it may only prolong the process of dying rather than restore the patient to an acceptable quality of life [ thus] having the personal right to decide whether to institute , continue, or terminate such treatment.