I’m not religious and I have met folks who believe the same sort of thing (ie. you fight death all the way until the end, or whatever). It’s hard for me to understand, truly, because aren’t they like “it’s God’s will” about everything else? Isn’t it God’s will that you also die at some point? Maybe I need to ask a…

The problem I have is when patients get their diagnoses but then family and friends and medical professionals all go “but you can fight it!” and fail to inform the patient what exactly that looks like. It is almost universally horrifying. The hospital is a terrible place to die, family and friends present or not.…

She may still be alive now, but if she truly has cancer in her brain and lungs and is in hospital, she probably won’t be for much longer. I don’t understand this weird obsession with “fighting” terminal illness all the way to the end. As soon as her cancer spread she had no chance. I hope she was able to focus on…