What is the one thing you learned that you did not previously

know?
The average life expectancy worldwide used to be around 50-60 years
the in 20th century. With the passage of time, the life expectancy
increased to a whooping numbers ranging from 80-90 years on average.
(NEJM Catalyst, 1982) This increase in life expectancy is something a
bit new for me. With the life going on, never noticed that the old beings
are now living longer than they used to live two or three decades back.
(Midlife Hand Grip Strength as a Predictor of Old Age Disability,
1999)This increase in average life is something new for me that this
documentary made me realize. Its the miracle of medicine and never
ending hard work of biologists that has let us achieve this milestone.
Human are now almost controlling their fates i-e. Their deaths. This is
something remarkable.

What did you find most surprising?

The most surprising thing is the advancement of life saving and lifeline
enhancement drugs. Human have advanced so much that now we can
avert death and in most cases delay it by using the miracles of
pharmaceutical discoveries that can treat diseases no one ever thought
can be treated. Back in 19th or 20th centuries, most of the diseases used
to go un-diagnosed and caused death of the patients. Most of the people
used to think it was some kind of demons possession that caused death.
With wonders of medicine, now we cannot only detect the illness but
also cure it to have a longer life. (JAMES F. FRIES, 2002)
Another thing that I found surprising is that the increment in the life
expectancy is a curse on the other hand. The sufferings increase as a
being ages. Miseries increases adding helplessness to the bucket of life.
Most of the aged people nodded to the fact that greater the elongation of
life, the greater difficulty it is to live it.

What is the one piece of information that will most likely affect
your nursing practice?
For me, the piece that will most effect my nursing practice is the
emotions of those old ones suffering from misery due to the blessing of
life that has now become a curse. They want to give up on their

sufferings but are not ready to give away the lives they have. One of
them told that my son wanted me to agree on the point that if my
sufferings exceeded my bearings, he can take my life to relieve me from
the pain but I simply cant give up on my life. It is not at all easy to throw
up. The affect it will brought on my nursing practice is to motivate them
emotionally and take good care of them in order to give them happiness.
In the last part of life, even the smallest happiness can turn out to effect
great positive. For me, the older patients will always be a priority as the
lie hanging between death and living and stay confused should they give
up or hold on.

Bibliography
JAMES F. FRIES, M. (2002). AGING, NATURAL DEATH, AND THE COMPRESSION OF
MORBIDITY. Retrieved from SCI FLO: http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?
pid=S0042-96862002000300012&script=sci_arttext&tlng=es
Midlife Hand Grip Strength as a Predictor of Old Age Disability. (1999). Retrieved
from JAMA: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=188748
NEJM Catalyst. (1982). Retrieved from NEJM:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM198205063061804