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Reasons for patients not wishing to know included "shocking", "fear", "feel time is running out", "might worry", "prefer to be ignorant" and "unpleasant to discuss date of death".
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Yet tobacco control studies reveal that shocking, fear-inducing campaigns designed to 'scare people straight' (Thompson et al. 2009a) do not necessarily have the desired effect (Cook and Bellis 2001, Gilbert 2005, Davis et al. 2007, Heikkinen et al. 2010).
The government used overwhelming, shocking force – and fear works.
Politicians looked away or swept under the rug the shocking statistics for fear of retaliation by the NRA.
Critics have confronted business owners, saying that they find the proposed colors shocking and that they fear Tannersville is going the way of Disney World.
Is it shocking that we now fear this is how doctors actually operate – that the lure of the potential organ donation trumps that of life-saving?
The exchanges felt natural, and none of my fears about shocking or repelling my children bore out.
And six months ago, she decided to disclose her HIV status to her daughter Anathi, who had just turned 13. "It really felt shocking," says Anathi, who feared that there would be no one to look after her seven-year-old brother, who was born HIV negative.
There is a shocking amount of proper, terrorising fear during this and subsequent scenes.
"The scale of atrocities carried out by Boko Haram is truly shocking, creating a climate of fear and insecurity", says Amnesty International.
Most shocking of all was their fear.
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