with illness. With such information hu 21. TO TELL THE TRUTH OR manly conveyed, the NOT TO TELL THE TRUTH tolerate pain better, and thus recover fast Whether a person with an incurable With the two opposite opinion illness should be kept in the dark or he cussed above. it is clear that neither of should be told about the truth has long hem is not reasonable. As for the patients been a controversial problem. Some people with a strong will, I think, the latter dying patients should be seems to be more effective. If ept in the dark. They believe that the other hand, the patients are comparatively seriously ill tend to be vulnerable to the pessimistic, the former might be more sad news. In their opinion, informing the uitable patients of the real situation they are faced with might crush their courage. As a re- sult, they may recover more slowly,or deteriorate faster Other people, on the contrary, advo cate telling them about the truth. Truth ful informat their important part in helping patients deal