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The rich picture on people at end of life Perceptions What our Macmillan online Community members are saying about end of life and terminal cancer experiences… (65) How the media* portrays terminal cancer end of life experiences… (66) *UK national daily newspaper 44 Contents
Understanding the numbers, needs and experiences of people affected by cancer What does this mean? What do we want to change in terms of people’s perceptions? Perceptions Macmillan hosts online discussions on its website. We have compared the frequency of words used in these discussions with the frequency of words used in media articles which talk about terminal cancer. The key conclusions of this analysis are given below: • ‘Time’ features prominently in the online community, as does ‘now’ and ‘day’, suggesting that people experiencing terminal cancer may be acutely aware of how much time they have left, perhaps taking each day as it comes. ‘Time’ also features prominently in the media articles relating to terminal cancer, but appears along with longer period time-related words such as ‘year(s)’ and ‘months’. • Words like ‘think’ and ‘know’ often feature in the online community discussions, suggesting people find it valuable to talk about their feelings, what they are thinking or feeling at end of life • The word ‘life’ features very often in the media, and almost as often in the online community discussions. This is perhaps because many of the articles in the media talk about a particular person’s life. However the media often selectively highlights very extreme examples life stories – these stories are not often typical and can distort people’s views on end of life experiences. • Perhaps due to the specific time period of media articles we analysed, the words ‘assisted’ and ‘suicide’ feature in the media with some frequency, due to sensationalised articles relating to euthanasia – whereas a very small number of people at end of life choose this controversial option (currently illegal in the UK). 45 Contents
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