“The Death Treatment” by Rachel Aviv, “A Cave with a View” by D.T. Max, and “Tears of the Sun” by William Finnegan are three articles that display the suffering and oppression of people in certain groups and societies. Although these groups are drastically different as a whole, some type of external force has diminished their livelihoods, cultures, and mindsets. These external forces range from higher powers, such as the government, to more personal people, such as one’s own family. “The Death Treatment” is an article about a Belgian woman diagnosed with depression named Godelieva. Godelieva had been battling depression for her entire life and had been in therapy since she was 19, seeing multiple therapists across the years. In Belgium, religion is not commonly practiced and euthanasia is legal and common. The secular Belgian culture results in people having independent, humanistic beliefs. That’s why euthanasia isn’t illegal there: people don’t believe in a higher power, therefore people feel the need to take their lives into their own hands. No one thinks that God, or a higher power, has a better plan for them. Dirk De Wachter was a psychiatry professor and head of a Belgian university’s ethics commission. According to Aviv, he believes that euthanasia became a humanist solution to…show more content… What does their job actually entail? They can’t protect their citizens of human trafficking and murder, so how is the government supposed to protect the miners from being robbed of their services? The intense, life-risking, physical labor that those men go through every day in the mines are for a small, ambiguous price. The informal miners work for individual companies who own the mines, and only get one day each month where they get to take as much as they can carry from the mines, hoping they picked the right deposits to actually earn some
