Why 'lost their battle' with serious illness is the wrong thing to say

When a dire disease strikes, it

When a dire disease strikes, it's easy to slip into war terms to describe the experience. But that sort of talk turns life into two outcomes: winning and losing. And that's not the way life works.

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