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....” This can be said for anyone with similar situations. Then of course the cancer creates fear and suffering for the patient and their loved ones. It starts with the diagnosis and it can extend through brutal, degrading treatments that can push patient and caregivers beyond every limit imagined. The process can disgrace, humiliate, terrify, brutalize, punish, devastate and challenge patients to question their values and their very lives. Viktor Frankl survived four Nazi concentration camps and was witness to men who had no reason to live, who felt they would be better off dead and yet he counseled them to live in the worst conditions and situations that any people have possibly ever endured. Viktor Frankl explains that not every situation can be changed the way people want it to so he writes, “When we are no longer able to change a situation – j...