As humans, are we willing to take the risk necessary to survive? Lisa Belkin author of “The Made-to Order-Savior” and Lisa Slater author of “Who holds the Clicker?” both tell us a story about the choices we make as humans to survive and the ethical questions this raises. Belkin's essay is about a little girl named Molly Nash, born with a rare condition called Fanconi disease. Her only way to survive is for her parents to have another child with an exact match like her. The procedure is called “in vitro fertilization.” Now, in Slater, the story is about this middle-aged man, Mario Grotta, who suffers from OCD. Obsessive compulsive disorder is what prevents Mario from leading a normal life. Mario, who has undergone almost every procedure possible, is left with one last hope by inserting neural implants. A risky operation which consists of drilling a hole in his skull. Both trials are linked to the risk the two humans take to survive. The question is: “When should we go down the slippery slope?” » the answer should be when there are no other possibilities. Whatever the ethical questions raised, we must move forward because over time we progress in medicine. Furthermore, by human instinct, we should risk all possibilities, even when death is a possible outcome. When it comes to rare diseases, some people tend to think that certain cures may not be ethical. Lisa Slater author of “Who Owns the Clicker?” » tells us the story of America's first psychiatric patient and the procedure he had to undergo. Mario suffers from OCD, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and to recover, he must have neural implants inserted. With a rare treatment involving neural implants, people are starting to question the procedure: "And psychosurgery, by its very nature... middle of paper......ing another baby to be his donor. This is what Belkin says: “It is human nature to do everything to save a life and, equally human, to worry about everything we do” (Belkin 2). It highlights the fact that we long to live and we also fear death, which is why we take risks. This ties into Slater's essay because in his essay Mario, who has tried 40 different methods to heal himself and failed, still doesn't give up. He is a perfect example of this since he voluntarily agrees to try neural implant surgery to see if he gets better. He would try anything even if it was possible that he might not survive to see his daughter born: “And so Mario became one of the first American psychiatric patients to undergo this highly experimental procedure” (Slater 234 ). Mario knows this procedure would be experimental but he is willing to try anything since it is his last hope..