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When terminal illness creates tension between honesty and hope

I have maybe six months left and my family keeps trying to plan things for next year like I'll still be here and I don't know whether to tell them to stop or let them hope.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dying individuals often struggle with whether to protect loved ones from reality or insist on honest acknowledgment of their prognosis.

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