You’re probably familiar with the idea of somebody’s negative thoughts affecting their health. This week, New Scientist is covering the ‘nocebo’ effect (2,249 words), which sometimes gets so bad as to kill a person. Seriously, that’s pretty extreme — thinking that you’re going to die can get so bad as to actually kill you. In fact, it’s hypothesized that it’s responsible for people dying of curses. Once you accept that you’re cursed, the nocebo effect takes it from there. It seems like we should be educating the terminally ill on the magnitude of this condition. via Reddit