Difficulty Accepting a Terminal Prognosis Linked with Depression, Anxiety, and Suffering -- A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Note: VERY SENSITIVE TOPIC Dissenting Opinion
Not all clinicians agree with the foregoing interpretations of these findings. "I've certainly seen people who denied dying up to their last breath and somehow never accepted it," Dr. Holland tells CA. "Were they more upset? I'm not sure."
She cautioned against allowing the findings by Dr. Thompson and colleagues to set a tone in which nonaccepting patients are viewed as dysfunctional. Death is as individualized as is life, she argues, invoking Sir William Osler, who said "Basically, people die as they have lived."