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How to talk to someone with cancer

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By Annabelle Gurwitch 
| The Boston Globe
Annabelle Gurwitch is an actress and the author of six memoirs. Her latest is “The End of My Life Is Killing Me,” from which this essay is adapted. “Are you sure you have cancer? You don’t have the cancer look.” After my out-of-the-blue diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer, I got stupefying comments of this sort, or the more colloquial “You don’t look cancery,” from even my most well-intentioned friends. They were mistaking the effects of some treatments for symptoms of the disease itself.
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The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker

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By Annabelle Gurwitch 
| Bookreporter Talks To
“I didn’t want to adopt a performative indefatigability or accomplish heroic feats that would turn me into someone’s idea of a cancer warrior. I vowed to be an underachiever. A cancer slacker.” So says New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch in her latest (and most important) book, THE END OF MY LIFE IS KILLING ME. Having received a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis, Gurwitch launched into a new career. She has become a foremost speaker on health care policy.
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Maybe It’s a Bad Idea to Fall in Love When You’re Facing Death

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By Annabelle Gurwitch 
| The New York Times
Who would date a person with a poor prognosis? Maybe someone with commitment issues? And that would be perfect for me, because I’d lost the capacity to fall in love. A Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis at the height of Covid coincided with the dissolution of my 20-year marriage. The news landed like a sucker punch, upending my equilibrium.
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