Do you believe that ...?

Question

Do you believe that with strong enough willpower you can overcome anything? Even delay your own death?

Answer 1

Possibily. Then again will power can kill you. For instance, the people who run for twenty six miles in a marathon and then collapse and die.

Answer 2

I have a gut feeling that yes this could be so ...but how to I  don't know  

Answer 3

I am a nurse and I have seen people delay death for hours waiting for someone to arrive so they can say good bye to them.

I have seen people with terminal cancer suddenly have the tumor vanish or greatly diminish because they seemed to will it to happen.

I have seen people convince themselves that rubbing ben-g*y on their legs will stop abdominal pain from cancer.

I have seen people will themselves to die also.