The purpose of the serious illness conversation is to offer patients a clear choice between treating and not treating an incurable disease like liver cancer. The goal is to give the person permission to alleviate pain and suffering. The individual might decide to be treated as a patient or honored as a person if given this option near the end of life. A non-serious illness conversation ends with the patient wishing to deny fate and oblige suffering recommended by healthcare heroes. A serious illness conversation begins with the person accepting fate and resting in peace through the tender … [Read more...] about Jimmy Carter’s Non-Serious Illness Conversation