1. Brody - Stories Of Sickness
A healthy person has an accident/contracts a disease, and then has to be pushed around in a wheelchair, has to be fed and toileted, and so on, loses status as an adult, and, being treated like a baby, that person gets the 'respect' or lack of accorded to a 'dependent' or 'useless' person. ... Such a person can lose self-respect to the point of committing suicide--directly or by withdrawal into a drugged state, a degraded state. ... Or, by some extraordinary circumstance of character or support from a near one, that person manage to not only retain/regain self resp...
- Word Count: 7536
- Approx Pages: 30
- Grade Level: High School