| who am I? I was born in Alexandria, Lousiana on July 19, 1988. However I have this theory I shouldn't be here. This theory came upon hearing the story about the day I was born. In the process of being born, my abilical cord somehow twisted and got wrapped around my neck which nearly killed me. Then shortly after that joyful experiance a nurse was feeding me and I began to turn blue because I hadn't learned to swallow food just yet. I had to be rushed into emergency care and have the fluid suced out. After the two tramatic events I came to the conclusion that I wasn't supposed to be born or just employees at that hospitol suced! morbid concept I know but an interesting story I think. I have an older brother named Layne and a younger half sister named Selena. My parents have been separated/divorced since I was a todler. So my childhood of being torn between the two. I lived and was raised by my mom most of my life. Until I turned 15 and had to make one of the hardest decisions of my life. My dad wanted me to move in with him. I decided to because of the fact I hardly saw him and wished to establish a relationship. I still look back today and contemplate my decision. I fear that I still hurt my mom when I made that decision and learned that my dad and I are two very different people who only have the same taste in music in common. I was born in Louisana but I have lived here in Warner Robins my entire life.As a kid I moved from house to house and have probably lived at every end of Warner Robins. I attended Miller Elementry from kindergarten until fifth grade. The same school my six-year-old sister goes now.How crazy is that? And I actually am still friends with people I went to that school with. After Miller I attended Bert Rumble Middle School which is now an extension to Warner Robins Highschool Which is where I went to HighSchool. I was a band kid in middle school and half way through high school. I played the clarinet in concert and pep band at football games. I wasn't a very athletic person yet I did run track for a couple of years. I was a long distance runner and did pretty well. I decided to drop it after freshman year at Warner Robins because it became too competitive. Music had aways been a huge interest of mine. It is more of a hobby. I love music and listen to a wide variety of it. I probably own a million cds. My favorite would ave to be rock music. Eighties rock music is the best. I have been to a ton of rock concerts. I have seen many of my favorite artists perform and plan to see many more this summer. I have seen Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Sevendust, Creed, Antiflag,New found glory, floggingmollys, Avenged Sevenfold and others. I couldn't live witout music. It calms me down when Im upset, it lifts your spirit, gives you a since of connection with other. You can listen to a song and say hey I know exactly how that person feels. And the always a song that matches your mood. Music is wonderful and concerts are amazing to go to. Music is a very big part of my life. I am currently engaged to my boyfriend Erik who I have been with since my freshmen year of highschool. He was my highschool sweetheart and is the love of my life.Him and I are very close and share the love of music. We plan on getting married after we're both done with college. We are best friends and I really think we have a good future together despite people who tell us that we are too young. We have everything well planed out and I think it will work out great. My passion is to become a nurse, a RN . I first got interested in the field of nursing by taking a health class in my freshmen year of highschool. I found mysef interested in the different disease and cures. After that class I continued to be interested, so I signed up for a nursing class. In that class I got to learn the basics: First aid, CPR, Patient care and medical abrievations. I enjoyed the class so much I staid in it for the second, third and fourth parts of the class. And I got a chance to intern at the Houston Medical Center, Where I helped with patientcare, got to see two c-section births, five natural births,a colonoscopy, do breathing treatments and a bunch of other stuff. I actually felt like a hospital employee and I loved every minute if it.So I am now attending Macon State College to get my Associates Degree in Nursing. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
All I Am Is Me
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Euthanasia: Right or Wrong?
Guilty as charged, But?
Everyone's initial reaction is of course that killing another human being is wrong. But is there special circumstances that make us question this? We all would probably agree that in times of self defense and the protection of our family and loved ones the wrongness of killing a person can be looked over. But killing a loved one who is terminally ill, brings up many questions of what is right or wrong.
In my opinion when Roswell Gilbert killed his wife it wasn't just killing a person just to kill them, I would not call it murder. It was a known thing that Gilbert loved his wife. He was just tired of seeing her suffer through Alzheimer's, which Alzheimer's in itself is a very devistating disease to acquire. A victum of Alzheimer's suffers greatly from memory loss and much of the time forget people who were once very close to them. Also if they are not cared for be someone they can be found wondering the streets miles from home and not knowing how to get back. Most people with Alzheimer's end up in nursing homes because of the hardships it puts on their families and loved ones.
Gilbert was kind in wanting to end his wife's suffering and carrying out her wishes. But the only problem is that people who knew Gilbert knew that he loved his wife but how would a jury and judge know? There have been so many cases of husbands and wives killing each other that the situation is questionable. Unless it was in writing that his wife wanted to die there would be know reason for a court not to think that Gilbert could of had other reasons behind killing his wife. He could of done it out of meaness and hatred towards her who knows? In a situation like this only Gilbert truly knows the truth. I feel that his punishment wasn't far, because I think it was punishment enough for him to see his wife suffer and to kill her to end it. That is something that is always going to stay with him and im sure he thinks about it everyday whether it was the right thing to do or not. Life in prison was a harsh sentence, because the fact he didn't kill his wife out of hate or just for the hell of it. He did it to end the suffering of someone he loved.
However, in extreme cases I don't believe Euthanasia to be wrong. For example, in the Shavo case where her husband made the decision to pull the plug. There was so much controvercy over this matter and many people though that it was wrong. People only look at it as taking someone's life, without considering all of the details. Shavo was in a vegetable state for years, she was only alive by machines. She couln't feed herself, move of speak. The right thing to do was pull the plug, because technically she wasn't alive. Her family just didn't want to deal with the fact she was a vegetable and would never recover they kept her alive by machine for years. Everyone was furious when the husband decided to pull the plug I feel he made the right decision. It didn't mean he didn't love her as people tried to claim i think he was put in a similar situation as Gilbert.
As I said in extreme situations I believe that Euthanasia should actually be considered, but only with the person's consent. I think that when a person is notified of a terminal illness that can't be cured they should have a choice to end their life. Euthanasia(and or doctor assisted suicide) is actually legal in a couple of places: Organ and Canada if I remember correctly. In terms of suffering a person shouldn't have to lives out years of it. And I throughly believe that people shouldn't only be kept alive with machines. If anything ever happens to me whether it be terminal illness or im in a vegetable state I wouln't want to live that way because in reality its not really living. Most people want a fulfilled life. I also wouldn't want to be a burden on my family and have them suffer seeing me that way or have to suffer through me not remembering them if I got Alzheimers. The idea of Euthanasia I feel will become more accepting in the future.
Everyone's initial reaction is of course that killing another human being is wrong. But is there special circumstances that make us question this? We all would probably agree that in times of self defense and the protection of our family and loved ones the wrongness of killing a person can be looked over. But killing a loved one who is terminally ill, brings up many questions of what is right or wrong.
In my opinion when Roswell Gilbert killed his wife it wasn't just killing a person just to kill them, I would not call it murder. It was a known thing that Gilbert loved his wife. He was just tired of seeing her suffer through Alzheimer's, which Alzheimer's in itself is a very devistating disease to acquire. A victum of Alzheimer's suffers greatly from memory loss and much of the time forget people who were once very close to them. Also if they are not cared for be someone they can be found wondering the streets miles from home and not knowing how to get back. Most people with Alzheimer's end up in nursing homes because of the hardships it puts on their families and loved ones.
Gilbert was kind in wanting to end his wife's suffering and carrying out her wishes. But the only problem is that people who knew Gilbert knew that he loved his wife but how would a jury and judge know? There have been so many cases of husbands and wives killing each other that the situation is questionable. Unless it was in writing that his wife wanted to die there would be know reason for a court not to think that Gilbert could of had other reasons behind killing his wife. He could of done it out of meaness and hatred towards her who knows? In a situation like this only Gilbert truly knows the truth. I feel that his punishment wasn't far, because I think it was punishment enough for him to see his wife suffer and to kill her to end it. That is something that is always going to stay with him and im sure he thinks about it everyday whether it was the right thing to do or not. Life in prison was a harsh sentence, because the fact he didn't kill his wife out of hate or just for the hell of it. He did it to end the suffering of someone he loved.
However, in extreme cases I don't believe Euthanasia to be wrong. For example, in the Shavo case where her husband made the decision to pull the plug. There was so much controvercy over this matter and many people though that it was wrong. People only look at it as taking someone's life, without considering all of the details. Shavo was in a vegetable state for years, she was only alive by machines. She couln't feed herself, move of speak. The right thing to do was pull the plug, because technically she wasn't alive. Her family just didn't want to deal with the fact she was a vegetable and would never recover they kept her alive by machine for years. Everyone was furious when the husband decided to pull the plug I feel he made the right decision. It didn't mean he didn't love her as people tried to claim i think he was put in a similar situation as Gilbert.
As I said in extreme situations I believe that Euthanasia should actually be considered, but only with the person's consent. I think that when a person is notified of a terminal illness that can't be cured they should have a choice to end their life. Euthanasia(and or doctor assisted suicide) is actually legal in a couple of places: Organ and Canada if I remember correctly. In terms of suffering a person shouldn't have to lives out years of it. And I throughly believe that people shouldn't only be kept alive with machines. If anything ever happens to me whether it be terminal illness or im in a vegetable state I wouln't want to live that way because in reality its not really living. Most people want a fulfilled life. I also wouldn't want to be a burden on my family and have them suffer seeing me that way or have to suffer through me not remembering them if I got Alzheimers. The idea of Euthanasia I feel will become more accepting in the future.
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