if you have pains or weird symptoms

and you keep ignoring them. and they go on. years pass. they get worse. you finally decide to get them checked out. turns out whatever the thing you have can't be cured anymore. and it's killing you. there's nothing you can do at this point. if you only had gotten help sooner, you would have lived. why didn't you?

better safe than sorry is what i'm trying to convey