HW19 Family Perspectives on Illness and Dying

     In my family, in at least one member in every generation is overweight, has diabetes, or has high blood pressure.  I'm not so sure about my father's side for various reasons I don't want to get into right now, so everything said relates to my mom's side.  On my mother's side of the family everyone is very likely to develop one of the conditions I stated in the beginning, due to lack of education throughout my family.  There are only 5 people in my family that I can think of that went to college. Everyone else that didn't go, I wouldn't consider to be more educated than me. My family has plenty of smokers, which leads to strokes, cardiac arrest, and etc. On top of that due to their lack of intelligence they don't really eat healthy meals from what I know.  Because, of these diseases and other conditions developing later in life there have been many hospital visits. Most of these I didn't attend to for various reasons.  These type of experiences and just the stories I've heard from family members, makes me afraid kind of to grow old. I want to keep my youth forever, as most people probably due.
     My family ( me and my mom) is also very religious. My mom is a Christian who takes most things serious from the religion.  My mom and family members believe in going to the doctor anytime anything bad or slightly bad happens to you.  My mom mostly believes in allopathic medicine. My mom tries to force these beliefs on me very often. If I ever get a cold, fever, injure myself, or get sick she always tries to take me to the doctor which is conveniently located to us.  She understands though that doctor's aren't always right. She thinks holistic medicine is very unreliable and would probably never trust her life in the hands of holistic medicine.  This is a quote she used the other day while talking to me about this " Abdul if you got shot or stabbed where are you going to go to the hospital or to the massage therapist, see which one will 'heal you up" better."
     My mom's opinion on illness and dying are very common and about what most of society thinks.  I basically grew up with the same ideas more or less so my opinion isn't to far off hers.  The reason I believe allopathic medicine is better than holistic medicine is because it's more logical and more advanced in a way. Allopathic medicine has been changing for centuries "improving" as the years go on, and for the most part it's due pretty good lives get saved. I do however, think that both opinions should be looked at and it should be the patients choice on what type of medicine should be prescribed onto them.