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Upbeat Attitude Doesn't Affect Cancer

Posted by Hemos on from the it-still-kills-you dept.

Reality Master 101 writes "Defying years of conventional wisdom, researchers announced that your attitude doesn't influence your outcome, and 'patients shouldn't feel pressured to stay positive'. I particularly liked the phrase, 'the tyranny of positive thinking'."

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  1. Re:Heh, what the hell? by andyt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sod that. Who on earth remembers the dull happy ones?

    If I find out that I'm going to die soon, I'm gonna be the loudest, whiniest most obnoxious patient anyone has ever seen. I want people to think of me in 10 years time as "that crochety bastard who made my life hell".

    And after I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes poured into the petrol tank of my Doctor.

    I may not be remembered fondly, but they won't forget me in a hurry!