Care Needs, Concerns and Treatment
Mrs. Margaret Cronin is in critical care. The symptoms that she's exhibiting, along with her varied medical history mean that she needs immediate and strategic care. She has an irregular heart rate, history of hypertension and pneumonia and appears anxious on admission to the unit. She has a history of hypertension along with viral pneumonia and heart disease.
Believing That Death Means Nothing to Us,
To Epicurus, "death should mean nothing to us" since it is a nonexistent entity in that, with cessation of life, our atoms disintegrate into nothing. As Epicurus more succinctly states (p.53: 1-5; 2): "Death means nothing to us because that which has been broken down into atoms has no sensation and that which has no sensation is no concern of ours." We become non-existent, our mortality subsides. Death, in its essence, is the opposite of life. There is no living, there is no fear, and there is no sensation. Since the essence of death is, therefore, a nothingness, we are rid of fear and all sensation and become a ‘nothingness' too. And, consequently, argues Epicurean, we have nothing to fear since we will be reduced to‘nothingness'. Epicurus, therefore, urges us to live the ‘good life' up to the very end and not to heed the advice of others who counsel the ‘good life' for youth whilst urging elderly people to end their life in ‘good style.'