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>I'm genuinely making an effort to understand how this is relevant to someone with a cancer diagnosis. Not having faced such yet, I can't say for sure. But I'v
by ridgeguy 8y ago
>I'm genuinely making an effort to understand how this is relevant to someone with a cancer diagnosis.
Not having faced such yet, I can't say for sure. But I've noticed among a few friends I've lost to illnesses that some felt 'singled out' while others didn't. Passing seemed generally harder on the former.
Perhaps the 'it's gonna happen to us all' perspective mitigates feelings of being unfairly 'chosen' to some degree.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoYes, something like that. I spent a year at death's door. When I stopped hallucinating conversations with the grim reaper, I knew I would live. I've made my peace with my mortality. And that's a private matter and we all get there -- or not -- in our own way. But total strangers who haven't made their peace with this will have big feels about our mortality in ways that can be problematic for the person who has accepted their death (in the face of a terrible illness).