Human beings like to modify the environment they live in. Human beings are conscious of themselves being alive, they can exercise much autonomy in moulding their own life and making plans for the future. Human beings also must suffer and be worried, and can never escape from disease. Buddha mentioned four sufferings, birth, aging, illness and death. Recently many people think that these sufferings do not have contact with daily life but exist only in hospital.
People try to hide from disease.
However when we think about human dignity and the respect for life, we need to discuss the ultra-modern medical technology. These are major issues within bioethics. I show some example from a textbook on ethics that focuses on illness. At first, we must understand that everyone has some illness and lives with it. But modern healthism presupposes the idea that illness and injury to health are bad.