In our society, death is still ignored as much as possible. Dying is for others, and should be 'avoided as much as possible'. But this just makes the confrontation extra hard.
The difference between an incurably ill person and a healthy one is not that the one is going to die, but that he can no longer ignore death. We all know somewhere in the back of our mind that we will die some day. But life gets a whole different meaning when we are suddenly forced to integrate the dying into it.
This may just be the biggest lesson life has to teach us. And the hardest...
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