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Over two decades as an oncologist, Richard Pazdur frequently delivered bad news to patients. Once, a dying man grabbed his coat and begged him to try even more chemotherapy. The doctor says he declined, because he believed further treatment wouldn't help. The patient died less than an hour later.

"What do you tell somebody?" Dr. Pazdur says. "He was just unwilling to accept the inevitable."

The whole choice of words speaks volumes. Not 'unable' (with its implication of sympathy for someone unable to cope) but 'unwilling' (with its disapproval of irrational obstinance).