The movie "Wit" is a first person account of the destructive power of cancer and how futile the situation becomes for the main character. Vivian Bearing the main character of the movie is a professor of poetry who is diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer. Ms. Bearing agrees to a "aggressive" treatment plan to combat the cancer. After a long and hard struggle with the chemo and radiation therapy, with no improvement to her health she decides in case of a cardiac arrest she be allowed to die. This paper will try to understand Ms. Bearings decision and why her solution might have been the best under the circumstances.
The facts are that Ms. Bearing has stage IV Cancer, and the chances from the beginning are bad. Stage IV cancer is the last stage in the disease and is almost always terminal. Cancer cells are abnormal cells that divide unchecked and overtime accumulate mutations that intern make the cancer "immune" from the individuals immune system. In other words the persons body......
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