Everyone Dies (Every1Dies)
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies)
Dr. Marianne Matzo, FAAN and Charlie Navarrette
Don't Call it a Battle: Why We Need to Change our Metaphors for Serious Illness
28 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm.
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We often use words like fighting, battle, and war for illness like cancer, but is it fair?  Battles have winners and losers, and our labels destine hard "fighters" to feel like a failure when illness advances.  The harm is treatment is continued to the bitter end at any cost: emotionally, socially and financially.  Can we do better?

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