Terminal illness
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Oct 4, 2026
speaker_1HOST
What was their developmental history? What are their baseline personality traits? Most importantly, what coping strategies and unconscious defense mechanisms do they typically employ when threatened?
Manaan KarrayHOST
When a patient is diagnosed with a terminal illness or suffers a massive heart attack, it is a catastrophic psychological threat.
Manaan KarrayHOST
They will deploy their defenses.
Manaan KarrayHOST
If a patient's primary defense mechanism is denial, they might try to sign out of the hospital against medical advice, claiming the chest pain is just indigestion.
Hannah WallenHOST
[laughs] And see, this is the thing.
Hannah WallenHOST
All right? I look at, I look at terminal illness a little bit differently I think, and I look at chronic illness a little bit differently, and I even look at severe or profound chronic illness a little m- bit differently than the majority of people probably will.
Hannah WallenHOST
Um, I've been exposed to experiences with people all of my life that the way that their lives are or were and the way that their experience of the world was is something that the rest of us don't have a, uh, a way to, to, to, um, to, to empathy, you know, to empath.
Hannah WallenHOST
We can't know how that feels because it is so uncommon or so outside of our experience that like they c- they may be able to tell us, they may be able to explain it, they may not, but it's not something that from the outside you can assess it.
28 MINS LATER
Hannah WallenHOST
Um, and I, I will point out in conjunction with what Doc said, um, among the various protected categories in every Western nation that has that, that particular form of DEI, being male is not a predict- protected category, and being white is not a protected category.
Hannah WallenHOST
Right? So that's the people who will be excluded, uh, from protection on the basis of who they are when it comes to, uh, people trying to encourage them because, you know, to, to accept medical existence, uh, assistance in dying instead of medically assisted longevity enhancement, um, because it's inconvenient or expensive to, uh, to, to encourage them to continue to wanna live.
Hannah WallenHOST
Then there is advice to peers, which highlights the need for clear and unambiguous definition of terminal illness.
Hannah WallenHOST
Right? Um, and it ...