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„Mental attitudes — contrary to what we would like to believe — make no difference to cancer outcomes. 'Being brave', or being shit-scared, or occupying a midpoint of stubborn self-deception, don't alter anything. The obituarial line, 'He died after a long struggle with cancer, bravely borne', should read:
'He died after cancer had a long, brave struggle with him.'“
— 12 hours, 30 min ago
'He died after cancer had a long, brave struggle with him.'“
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„I have had a lifelong engagement with death, both theoretical and actual, and have written about it many times. Yet, despite the shiver of 'I can't tell if it is or isn't leukaemia', I hadn't received a death sentence. Instead, I had received a life sentence: sentenced to live with my cancer until I died. When I checked — you have to check — … I was told (if in more scientific terminology): fat chance.“
— 12 hours, 34 min ago
