to tell the truth?

Classical Essay

Imagine that your best friend in the whole wide world has cancer and they’ve been very sick for a couple of months already. As any other true friend would do, you’d be at the hospital day and night to give moral support and to care for your companion. But everyday you’d see that their condition keeps on getting worse and worse. One day, though, your friends’ doctor informs you that he believes that your friend has only a few more months to live. Devastated by the news you walk into your friends’ room to cherish the time you have left with them. At that moment you walk in, ironically your friend asks you if they are going to make it through their horrible sickness. Given that information that you just received a while ago from the doctor, how could you tell your best friend that she is on her deathbed? Do you tell them the truth or do you lie to them? Thinking it through you knew that you couldn’t tell them the truth. So you decided to tell them a ...