Wide context

Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Lying is acceptable if it is to help and protect people. Incurably ill people should not be told the truth. Doctors should tell their patients that they will soon get back to health. Never should they tell the truth. Each of us is different as far as psyche is concerned. Knowing that our lives are terminating, we may react in various ways. Some would stay calm and patiently would wait for the death to come, while others would become furious and would like to commit a suicide to prevent themselves from suffering.