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When You're Afraid to Live With Parkinson's Disease
The future — the unknown. We spend our lives pursuing it, planning for it, dreaming about and wishing for what it will look like. Often the disappointments of life come about because what we had dreamed, hoped and planned for did not come about. In some ways, we are always chasing a dream — a dream and hope of what our future will be. For some of us though, that dream became a nightmare on the day of our diagnosis, as our hopes and dreams for the future came crashing down around us. Instead of something to be feared, our future death became something that we viewed as relief and peace. For me, I now no longer feared death, because I was more terrified of living.