Sometimes the patient's relatives (and sometimes the patients) perceive the disease as an "individual choice" and say: "he made himself sick", "he deliberately revealed the disease", "he became sick because he wanted to"...
However, in reality, we do not have the luxury of making some choices: we do not have the luxury of choosing our parents, our unborn child, our gender, our race, the color of our skin, our genetic structure, our fate, our time of death... The expression "There is no cure for what will happen or die" summarizes this situation very well. Even if we try as much as we want, sometimes we may not be able to achieve the results we wish for. The best example of this is the story of the saying "When God does not give you, what can you do, Sultan Mahmud" (you can read it on the internet).
If we could have a say over the choices that are probably out of our control; The young girl who was a victim of incest would not want to be the child of that pervert father. The mother who was disabled because she was subjected to cruelty would not give birth to that cruel child. Individuals could seek alternative exchanges to avoid being subjected to violence resulting from gender/skin color/race discrimination. All means would be mobilized to postpone the time of death.
A patient who can say "it is not my choice" about diseases like others is telling the truth. Therefore, that patient cannot be held responsible for his illness.
How humane can the negative expressions of a patient's relative who cannot empathize with and understand his patient's situation be?
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