I know you are being sarcastic, but there really is no difference, people who are terminally ill get depressed and think of giving up the same as anyone else.
Who's to say that given the chance they wouldn't snap out of their funk and try to live.
Many people who are diagnosed to die in less than 6 months live full healthy lives (my Aunt included which was told that in her teens, and lived into her 50's"
"Who's to say that given the chance they wouldn't snap out of their funk and try to live."
Try to live as what, bedridden masses of cancer and diseased bone, unable to relieve themselves, bathe themselves, or even move for fear of another bone snapping?
I would be depressed by that, yes, but it wouldn't be clinical depression. It would be my realization that any hope I had for leading any kind of life was over, and that I would much prefer an end to my pain. And that I couldn't.