"...Although the curative potion is difficult to achieve in itself, the prime purpose of the curse serves as the greatest obstacle to ridding oneself of it. Early studies of the artifact’s effects have theorized that the afflicted must overcome the curse’s suppression of one’s will to survive, however this has proven to be a gross oversimplification; Rather, recent theories have posited that the curse requires the afflicted to possess the desire to live, which can only be satisfied by the discovery and subsequent achievement of one’s personal definition of such desire. Such an achievement by itself, however, only appears to halt the spread of the curse, doing nothing to heal existing damage that could ultimately prove fatal.’