Acharya Prashant begins by stating that the condition of a terminally ill person should not be considered special. He says he does not want to say anything special to them because doing so would only reinforce the notion in their minds that their situation is special, and specifically, especially painful. He asks, "Who does not have fourth-stage cancer?" He explains that liberation lies in understanding this very point. As long as we hold the belief that life is ongoing and death is its end, death will remain a very painful and special thing for us. Nothing special is happening to them; what is happening to them is happening to you and me. The more they consider their situation special, the more they will place it at the center of their lives and see themselves only as patients. The second name for the body is disease. Health is not the name of the body; health is the transcendence of the body. A healthy person is one who has gone beyond the body. The Upanishads say, "Niramayo'ham," meaning "I am that which cannot be afflicted by any disease." The body's name is disease, so everyone is sick. When everyone is sick, why should anyone feel guilty about their own illness? We are born with cancer. It manifests in some and not in others. For those in whom it doesn't manifest, something else does. Death is present from childhood; it is death that is born. What you call life is nothing but a continuous process of dying. Real life has to be discovered. Death is what you get for free with birth. The only choice is to do what is right. Until the very last moment of death, you must keep doing the right thing. He uses the analogy of a three-hour exam where two hours and fifty-eight minutes have passed. You should keep writing, even if the invigilator is coming to snatch the paper. Keep writing until it is snatched away. Often, the patient is not as sad as their so-called relatives make them. They are made sad by the sympathy shown to them. People look at the patient as if they are looking at death itself. Let the person live; they are not dead yet. The minimum service you can do for a seriously ill person is not to show them sympathy. This is not to be cruel, but to not transmit the body-idea to them. Address them as consciousness. The body needs treatment, but consciousness should not fall sick.