ing, and they feel isolated and punished (Bartlett, p. 94). People who are often struck as feeling guilty all of the time have trouble breathing, are nauseated, break out into cold sweats, have racing pulses, and have a feeling of being panicky most of the time. As you can see these are symptoms in which people can not live with on a daily basis. Medical attention should be given to anyone who has these symptoms. The victims and families need to learn to be comfortable with themselves and the people surrounding them.Along with families going through all of the initial reactions of finding out a loved one has contracted AIDS families then have to emotionally prepare and accept the death of that family member. Death is hard to think about, harder to face. The thought of death is slippery, difficult to focus on, surrounded by a cloud of pain and fear (Bartlett, p. 258). No matter how positive a family member is every time you see a loved one that has a terminal illness and is dying all you can do is think about their time running out. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross stated that there are stages that occur when one is confronted with death: first there is denial, then anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. These stages are very true with a person who has contracted AIDS, and is B.A Mayalso true for the family members of a terminally ill person. For family members who see their sick loved one every day struggling to survive it hurts them badly. They will do everything in their power to try to keep the dying person alive. Lisa Pratt said, I was fighting to keep my husband alive. I just didnt want to give up. He said to me, dont you know Lisa, its just one sickness after another. I said never mind, just keep fighting (Bartlett, p.268). This is one instance when a family member does not want to let go of their loved one. Soon or later they have to let go because the person with the illness is going to die, and after they a...
