switchboard_pete@fedia.iotoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it possible to stay alive just for something you want to do (I mean dyeing of old age) like Jimmy Carter wants to stay alive so he can vote for Harris? Have you seen or heard example of this?
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12 hours agoi can’t source it and it’s tangential but i do remember hearing about some study that looked at people’s reactions to their cancer diagnosis
- some people react with melancholy
- some people react by entering into a strict regime to give themselves that maximum chance of surviving, like heavily controlled diet, exercise, etc.
- some people react with outrage and denial, just refusing to allow the fact that they have cancer alter their lives
and the outcome was that the second groups had better outcomes than the first, but more interestingly, the third group also had better outcomes than the first
which is why they’re getting rid of it
it would probably be pretty easy to just patch telemetry into it, except nobody uses it because why would you