We have reached the final chapters of our required, ancillary text, Being Mortal. How was your reading affected by the book’s final scene, as Dr. Gawande fulfills his father’s wishes? How do tradition and spirituality influence your concept of what it means to be mortal? How would you evaluate Dr. Gawande? Do you think he had a long learning curve? Do you identify with his initial attitude toward the elderly and dying? Have you changed your thinking about end-stage illness, old age, and other catastrophic conditions? Will you take any actions based on what you have read and discussed here?

Using bees/wasps to kill isn't the greatest tactic, but the Careers were not expecting it, and two people died from the stings. She used it as a gas bomb of sorts, but instead of gas, there are killer mutated wasps that cause insanity and illusions when stung. She carefully, so carefully, as to not wake or disturb the tracker jackers, plucked the nest out of the tree, and dropped it like a bomb below. The nest hit one branch on the way down, as Katniss was in a tree, causing her to get stung once or twice. But the nest served its purpose, causing havoc and scattering the Careers and killing two other tributes in the process.

But, for the people who don't like reading, the Tracker jackers were utilized as a bomb of sorts, dropping killer wasps onto the unsuspecting Careers.