For an article written about time, I would have thought there'd be a timestamp on the blog post. Just something to think about if someone stumbles upon this in a few years.
As someone who has had incurable brain cancer for 7+ years this stresses me out.
From a logical perspective, our bodies aren't designed to withstand the kind of emotional turmoil that follows a cancer diagnosis. In nature, we would either pass away quickly to 'unknown' illness or never know that there was anything 'wrong' with us until we met a swift end. Neither options allow the human brain to comprehend what is going on. Modern advancements in technology open up a really challenging area of pyscological science, where we know something is wrong, but I dont believe the brain is fully capable of processing that information. A by-product of that is stress.