Anon Archived Why I've Stopped Giving Unsolicited Health Advice (vitals.lifehacker.com)
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Anon Archived Why I've Stopped Giving Unsolicited Health Advice (vitals.lifehacker.com)
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For many people, once they start going down the wrong path, cognitive dissonance prevents them from realizing their mistake and they just double-down on their resolve to do it "their way". Many family members tried to convince her to seek medical treatment, but that only stiffened her resolve, and made her last year of life uncomfortable. I don't know if the family backed off she would have come to her senses in time. Pancreatic cancer is usually fatal, and it could be that no treatment would have saved her, and the discomfort of treatment would be not worth it to her. It was her decision and she resented family not being supportive of her, to the bitter end, but she did not want to die. She continued to believe, even as the cancer was literally protruding from her abdomen (it was so large it broke through her skin).