• Connectors or reasons link to central problem:
1. Family considering it an obligation to take the patient to treatment as he has been earning for the family and contributing for the most period of his time and now this treatment costs much more than they had prepared for any emergency.
2. Family being put into more debt if the chemo costs more and fails.
3. Family insisting on aggressive care links to guilt because the family members have a sense of responsibility to do everything possible in order to keep him alive and healthy.
4. Even if the patient lives chances are that for most period of his remaining life he would not be able to work for the family and thus the family considering him just a burden.
• Interrelationship that connects all reasons to the problem:
The debt taken was for the house the family needed to live in and they’d be homeless if they try to pay by selling the house. The cancer occurred by working too much in a factory which doesn’t have much safety measures for the control of radiation where he has been working for 20 years to earn for his family. The family’s income fell half to as it used to be after the patient has been ill and thus they are unable to make enough to make both ends meet.
Being in this grief position the family as well as the patient find themselves in fear, guilt and obligations of being there for each other and failing in every way to provide for the family and live a good life.
• Interrelationship that connects at least two o