Stephen Gould

If you only had a few months left to live due to a disease how would you choose to live? Would you let it take control of you and wither away, or would you make the most out of your final days by doing all you could? In the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom gains a new understanding of life’s greatest lessons through his dying professor’s, Morrie Schwartz, eyes. This book helped open my eyes as well and realize what is truly important in your life and the things you should make a priority. Between our textbook, Social Gerontology, and the novel, Tuesday’s with Morrie, they both touched a lot of important key points of aging and what a person is ultimately faced with as they are nearing their death. The top three

I. Imagine yourself or a loved one just diagnosed with a terminal debilitating illness. You are given at best six months to live. During those six months your prognosis will turn from bad to worse. You know you will eventually be in an uncontrollable amount of persistent pain. You will eventually lose the ability to feed, dress, or bathe and toilet yourself. Your once very active life will become one

The main message of this article is to relay that not everyone is the median. There are many different effects that lead to the distribution of points on a curve, and in this case, death is not set point that has been predetermined by statistics. Gould wanted to share that

The United States is one of the countries profoundly affected by health disparities and inequities. One may argue this is attributable to its diverse ethnic and racial groups and wide geographical area coverage, but still, it is extremely undesirable to record that extent of health disparities and inequities. The 78.8 years life expectancy is just the average. Some states have a life expectancy of high as 86 years whereas as low as 68 years. The standard deviation of life expectancy across the states is very huge. For instance, the life expectancy in Summit County, Colorado is 86.6 years whereas in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, the life expectancy is 66.8 years (Welch, 2017). A margin of about 20 years is troubling, especially for a developed country like the United States. These disparities also apply for other health indices from region to region and ethnic group to another. Hence, this agenda is on the right

live past the average living age. Buettner (2009) states only 10 percent on how a person lives are

According to Gawande (2014), modern scientific capability has profoundly altered the course of human life. People live longer and better than at any other time in history. But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences, matters to be managed by health care professionals. And we in the medical world have proved alarmingly unprepared for it. This reality has been largely hidden, as the final phases of life become less familiar to people.

• Identify how Kubler-Ross’ five stages of death and dying play a critical role in helping this couple, identifying and explaining what stage each person is in.

Erikson’s 8Th stage of development is ego integrity vs. despair. At this stage elder adults contemplate their accomplishments and if they believe they have lived a successful life then they will develop integrity, if one doesn't think they have lived a successful life then they will develop despair. If humans have the opportunity to live longer then they have more opportunities to make their life successful instead being too old and dissatisfied with their life. With the chance to live longer, humans can reflect on their ego integrity vs. despair after 150 years instead of just 80 or 90. They have many more years to experience events and make more memories throughout their lifetime. If a human really wants to live longer, then that may mean they are dissatisfied with their life, but if they are satisfied then they do not fear

In England the report discovered that people living in the poorest areas were on average more likely to die seven years younger than those living in the

Mean and standard deviation were used to describe the length of labor in the study. These were appropriate because mean (M) is used to calculate interval (and ratio) data, thus, the length of labor in interval data.

Another finding in their studies was demonstrating that 67 percent of less fortunate males have a greater chance of passing away each year, and 52 percent of less fortunate females have a greater chance than their well-off partner. By the time they finished their study they had come to a conclusion that “if all Canadians were as healthy as the top 20 percent of income earners, there would be approximately 40,000 fewer deaths each year.” (Bryant, 2014, para. 4) According to the US Census Bureau the average American is making approximately $50,756 each year. In America income equality has a factor on a numerous amount of things. Not only are the paychecks very unequal, the lifespan of rich people are increasingly longer than the lifespan of the poor American people. According to Hamilton Health Sciences “by the late 1990s the rich were living 4.5 years longer, and the gap has only widened since then. Some other things it has a factor on are education and economic growth.

Today I’m going to expose the less than desirable side of eternal youth, everlasting life, radically longer human life spans, or any other terminology that you'd like to use to describe the event of seeming eternal life, because an essay published in August of 2013 by the Pew Research Center claims biomedical scientists will be able to extend the average american life span to beyond 120 years by 2050 (Liu). which is all good and well, but you really wouldn't want to live that long

The author presents a few evidence to support their argument in a way that one’s insight can be clearer of what is written. As said before socioeconomic status influences multiple disease outcomes, where it discovered that the society’s poor and less privileged people lives in the worst health and die much younger than the more privileged people. It is said that they are at more risk of death for those being at their lowest

Gregor Mendel, conceived as Johann Mendel, was an Austrian researcher and friar hailed as the "Father of present day hereditary qualities" for his spearheading research in the field of heredity. He was a minister in Augustinian Abbey of St Thomas in Brno where he functioned as an instructor. He had a profound enthusiasm for herbal science which drove him to lead to investigate pea plants. Enlivened by the work of a scholar named Franz Unger, he started his analyses in the religious community's sprawling patio nurseries. Throughout his review he watched that there were seven qualities in the pea plants, and two types of every trademark. These attributes included seed shape and unit shape not withstanding plant tallness and seed shading. Mendel

rather than viewing the second half of life as a time of progressive deterioration in