#6 podcast

This week I listened to the podcast American life, titled in defense of ignorance. End it tell stories about how ignorance was beneficial even helpful to people in certain situations. One of the stories was is that a girl was doing a story about her grandmother, Who lived far away in China. In Chinese custom, it is traditional for doctors, when faced with the news about a patient's demise, always break it to the family members instead of the patient themselves, leaving it up to the families to tell them whether they are dying or not. This is the case of the grandma who had stage four lung cancer and was diagnosed to pass in the next couple months. The family made the decision to never tell grandma, for they believed if one is told that they are dying then they will, even discussing it folkloric joke about two men one dying and one healthy, getting their results mixed up ,  leading the healthy want to die, and the dying one to live. they couldn't do anything for the grandmother yet they wanted to say their final goodbye without actuallg letting her know, so they decided to stage a fake wedding. The entire time emotions run high, because they knew that that was their final goodbye to the grandmother, so a lot of people did cry, and everyone told grandma that they were just happy for the couple. After that though, the months and into years, with grandma still living today. Which everybody in the story was happy about, and slightly baffled.