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My best friend died of cancer almost 4 years ago and I found out from his parents that he had signed a document saying he didn't want to know any details once he got the diagnosis. Apparently it's quite common in late stage cancer diagnosis.
His parents knew from the start exactly how long the doctors gave him though, which makes my stomach shrink just thinking about. It must have been absolute hell knowing pretty much exactly when their son would die and yet have to hide it from him.
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An unfortunate side-effect of expanding screening is that a small number of people find out that they have a pretty much fixed date of death. If I had 8 years to live I'm not sure I'd want to know until I had about 3 to go?