Table 5 Indicative quotations: Hope and faith: Challenging the terminal diagnosis

Patient #5

So my bone cancer considered very, very dangerous and I shouldn’t say my mine bone cancer, sorry God. I cannot say that I have cancer he will give me bad feeling … I believe God. God say that everything that come out from your mouth, we always have to say positive about us. I’m not sick, I’m healthy, God is healing me. The more we say about negative thing, the more that negativity will come to us.

Patient #16

I believe in God. There’s a particular God, that I believe in. I have 100% faith that he is not going to let me down, that everything’s going to come through correct.

Patient #8

I’m very positive in my approach to my illness. So I believe God is going to heal me. […] Even if I might be on my deathbed, I will still believe the manifestation of my healing will come. That’s how I prefer to die and pass away… I’m going to not to be a statistic of a carcinoma death, but I will be a miracle.

Patient #3

The doctor can’t tell me how many more years or months I have. So I can only sense it myself, feel it myself, I suppose.

Patient #5

I, myself, believe God will heal me. So when Dr. [Name] say, “Nothing we can do.” I say to myself, “Yeeha, God will show His power. He will heal me.”

Caregiver #14

I’m a spiritual person, as in I believe that there is someone looking out for us. Not so that I go to church. But I have a strong sense of faith and my dad has a strong sense of faith and he is a very positive person and that’s what’s been helping him throughout his whole illness because he thinks he’s just going to get better and he’s very positive. So we do, we have a strong sense of faith.