The first thing they are forced to do is to choose between living and dying. The language makes them do that, because in normal speech these words are mutually exclusive, and so they can’t be doing both at the same time. “Living with a life-threatening illness” is an outsider’s language that is used to describe a kind of person that the outsider has never been, a kind of life that the outsider has never lived. “People living with a life-threatening illness” is the same kind of name, carrying the same kind of outsider language and uneasiness and prejudices. So is the phase “The Dying.” It means
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