Carefully watch the movie and answer the following questions, using evidence from the texts to support your ideas:
1. How does Vivian Bearing’s experience of social support influence her illness experience?
2. How do Vivian Bearing’s experiences with health care providers support the well-documented trends in patient-provider communication?
3. What evidence do you see that both Vivian Bearing and her healthcare providers have been socialized to use the Voice of the Life world and/or the Voice of Medicine? Does anyone in the movie deviate from the patient and/or health care provider role expectations and if so, how?
4. How does Vivian Bearing’s experience support Zululand ideas about how our cultural conceptions surrounding the “beautiful death” cause so many people to die alone?
