Introspection on Health, Illness, Dying, and Death

Running head: INTROSPECTION ON HEALTH, ILLNESS, DYING AND DEATH.
INTROSPECTION ON HEALTH, ILLNESS, DYING, AND DEATH
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1INTROSPECTION ON HEALTH, ILLNESS, DYING, AND DEATH
A healthy life is something which everyone wishes off. However, maintaining good
health is a tough job in today environment. An average person also undergoes various changes in
its physical health. They face many diseases and health issues. For a person, the duration of any
particular illness no matter how acute or chronic it is a tough challenge. Both patient and their
family's member fight with the situation.
I have read an article in which a patient has reported her story of being into illness for a
long time (McCoy, 2019). She was suffering from a syndrome known as “Irritable Bowel
Syndrome” where she has to go gastroscopy and biopsy, as initially, doctor thought it might be
cancer. The lady was tensed as she was admitted for three weeks to get diagnosed entirely.
According to the perspective of her, illness is not that hurts physically. Disease arises from the
state of mind of the person. If a person thinks that they are ill, it can lead them to even worse
case than just being ill. She neither thought she is ill nor she loses hope of not being diagnosed
with cancer. Her story has changed my viewpoint of meaning of illness. Initially, according to
me, illness was a state of absence of any disease and nothing is related to the mindset of person.
However, after reading, I came to know that illness something that is related to psychology of
patient even though they suffer from physical issue. It gives me an insight, how to deal with the
patient disease and health
My response and observation of the situation were clear. The patient in her article talked
about her behavior she showed during the period of being treated. She was scared and quite
worried because of the atmosphere of hospital like saline use, regular medicine. This irritated her
and made her more concerned than she was. I believe that death and dying are logical and
obvious thing in such state. I think death is a predetermined thing and it will come when it has
been destined for them. However, after reading the article, my view regarding death also