On seeing Buddha, Dona went to him and said, “Master, are you a deva?”
“No, brahman, I am not a deva.”
“Are you a gandhabba?”
“No…”
“… a yakkha?”
“No…”
“… a human being?”
“No, brahman, I am not a human being.”
“Then what sort of being are you?”
“Remember me, brahman, as ‘awakened.’”
The Ultimate Principle of Reality - All that has a form is illusive and unreal.
The belief you have a terminal illness can actually cause you to die, and negative thinking is much more common in our current world.