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title: ""There are no easy conversations when it comes to dying. Especially…"
date: 2019-09-08
source: facebook
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# "There are no easy conversations when it comes to dying. Especially…

*September 8, 2019 · Facebook*

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[http://hintjens.com/blog:123](http://hintjens.com/blog:123){target="_blank"}
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\"There are no easy conversations when it comes to dying. Especially when it comes to a disease like cancer, which eats us up from the inside, a betrayal by our own cells. \"Fight it,\" people still tell me. \"Don\'t give up! We need you!\" This notion that cancer is a fight... it\'s one I want to break down, and then rebuild, in this article. I\'ve come to believe that death can be a positive social experience. Let me explain...\
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Let me start with this: one does not choose to fight, or give in to, a disease like cancer. Perhaps to any disease. In my body right now there is a holy war going on, and has been raging for years. My immune system has been doing its damned best to kill these rogue cells. And the rogue cells, unaware that they\'re destroying their own host, have been fighting back. It\'s no small fight. I\'ve lost 15 kilograms in the last few months.\
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The odds are on the cancer, of course, which is why this family of diseases is a major killer. Our bodies have to keep winning, year after year. Any given cancer has to win only once, and it\'s Game Over. The only way to beat cancer, really, is to die from something else first.\"\
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[http://hintjens.com/blog:123](http://hintjens.com/blog:123){target="_blank"}
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