Who is Mr. Y. from On Death and Dying and what is their importance?

Mr. Y. is described as an elderly farm-type person, who brought his wife into a big city hospital to the intensive care unit. Unfamiliar with the city, he was extremely uncomfortable in that environment, and he struggled with the expense and trying to find an appropriate place to sleep. Mr. Y was only allowed to see his wife for five minutes every hour. One of the students noted that he looked like a lost soul. He expressed his anger to the interviewers in regard to the nurses who kept him from his wife and made him feel like he was in the way. The research staff helped him find more comfortable quarters, but they were not able to help him much more than that.