If you thought you were sick, like potentially fatally sick, and you didn't tell the people closest to you, would that be considered lying? No reason I'm asking, just curious.
Had a friend do that. Told her family she was recovering from a minor cancer issue, they found out after she died it was incurable pancreatic cancer. Fucked her kids up something awful. Me, too, because we all believed her when she said it was just the chemo making her sicker and sicker.
Now, doing it to that extent is just WRONG. Because it's damn wrong to leave your family unprepared and defenseless. At that point, you *need* to e telling them, for them as well as yourself. Not saying anything when you know for sure you're dying is selfish, I think.
She told her husband just a few days before she died, and made him promise not to tell her kids. Her daughter (17) phoned me soon after she died "Did you know?". She was screaming and hysterical with rage/grief. Horrible for everyone. I can understand Beth's decision, though. She didn't want to be surrounded by grief, wanted to keep everything upbeat and as cheerful as possible. Still feel sorry for her kids :(
So, of course, your question has me freaked out. You're not gonna cark it, right?
Omg, trust me on this, if I ever found out I was terminal, y'all would unfriend me in droves because that'd be all I ever talked about. Not to mention I'd stalk you all individually to whine and scream some more, plus demand truck-loads of sparkly stuff and shit.
Nope, I would fucking not go gentle into that good night, not me. ;D
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10/10/15 09:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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10/12/15 09:32 pm (UTC)So, of course, your question has me freaked out. You're not gonna cark it, right?
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10/12/15 09:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
10/12/15 10:26 pm (UTC)Omg, trust me on this, if I ever found out I was terminal, y'all would unfriend me in droves because that'd be all I ever talked about. Not to mention I'd stalk you all individually to whine and scream some more, plus demand truck-loads of sparkly stuff and shit.
Nope, I would fucking not go gentle into that good night, not me. ;D