I encountered illness twice with very close people in my family. One was my great grandmother, she had been sick for so many years since i was five years old. It was matter of time before she would pass away but at the same time nobody was ready for it to happen. The second was my grandfather which came to a shock to all of us. The day before he became very ill he was perfectly fine doing the usual things. Then the next day he was rushed to the hospital and each day he was getting worse. It was crazy how one day you can be perfectly fine and the next day terminally ill.
Growing up when somebody is ill or dying, you are suppose to go see them and comfort them even though you know that they are going to die which is the worst part. In my family lots of times we pray for the people who are sick and hopefully they get better(doesn't happen all the time. Following that in lots of hispanic background when people are dying or died, we have these praying session with the bible and the rosey. I never realized how in depth they go and the reason why, i honestly don't like it.
I always wondered where the social norms come from and how they came about with having funerals and seeing that constant ill person at the hospital. What if we never visited them at all or not the proper burial does that make it bad? In society being terminally ill or dying are suppose to have that their family near them and always have that comfort zone so possibly it will make them get better.
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