9/21/2017 2 Comments Life Choice: To Tell the Truth?
For this blog post I will be talking about the “What You Don’t Know” podcast that featured Lulu Wang. This story/podcast is about how a woman and her family chose not to tell her grandmother that she had stage 4 lung cancer. And how her family agrees to this idea and how they all feel over the course of those last few months. Yes, I do agree with Lulu and her family’s decision to not tell her grandmother that she has cancer. Especially because of how this choice leads to her grandma actually surviving her cancer like it was nothing. But I only agree on one condition, that I would know how this would pan out for my relative in terms of their cancer. I was very surprised to know that her entire family agreed and went this idea of deceiving their relative like this. I wish something like this could've happened in my family but i doubt all of my family relatives/members would have ever agreed to this idea. Mostly because they wouldn't want to lie to their face constantly. Even if her grandmother knew that they were either up to something or lying to her, I really respect her family for being able to come together to execute this task as a whole. At first when Lulu explained the situation at the beginning of the podcast I felt bad for her because of how she explained how she felt this was wrong. But knowing now that her grandmother survived her cancer due to this I feel differently. She felt that this was wrong because she wanted to grieve with her and let her enjoy her limited time left knowing that all her loved ones would be there for her. In a way this is a form of oppression because of how her Mom informs her that it was her choice not to tell her the bad news and that she had no influence on this decision. About four months ago I had a small incident in which I damaged my car by hitting my girlfriend’s car. And I chose to tell my Dad that it was a hit and run that happened while I was at work instead of telling him what really happened. He was still infuriated about this even though I didn't tell him what actually happened, but he also felt bad for me. He felt so strongly about this that he wanted to see if they could get security camera footage from another business near mine and file a police report to find the person that did it. But i refused to let him do this because I didn't think it was actually that bad and because i didn't want him to discover the truth. My girlfriend and her family weren't very mad at me, mostly because the damage on her car wasn't nearly as bad as it was on my car. I really felt this lie was necessary based on how i had another incident recently before that. And he was the most enraged I had ever seen him about a mistake I had made with that one. Looking back on it now, I kind of do regret telling him just because of how I hate lying to him because i rarely do and it makes me feel so bad.
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Gabi D'Ambrosio
9/24/2017 02:02:57 pm
I also think that my whole family would not be able to keep such a big secret from one of the relatives. None of them can ever agree on anything.
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Sabatino Maangini
9/26/2017 08:46:30 am
Are you interested in turning your narrative response into your formal life-choice narrative?
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