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Earth described as a palliative care patient in viral post

Original: Imagine sending a page to the palliative care service that reads: “Patient is 4.5 billion years old with recent history

A climate-themed post reframes the planet's environmental crisis as a medical referral, describing a patient aged 4.5 billion years with fever, non-healing wounds and multisystem failure, and requesting palliative support and a goals-of-care conversation. The tongue-in-cheek framing treats global warming, wildfires and ecosystem collapse as symptoms of a dying Earth, striking a chord with readers who find dark humour an apt way to express climate grief.

Why now: The darkly comic framing of climate collapse as terminal illness resonates with widespread climate anxiety.

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• Imagine sending a page to the palliative care service that reads: “Patient is 4.5 billion years old with recent history of fever and nonhealing wounds, now in multisystem failure. Request consult for IDT support, symptom management, and goals-of-care conversation.” While tongue… · Snoro · 5

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