Life is an incurable disease.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Of all ills that one endures,/ hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Though you be absent here, I needs must say / The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, / As ever they were wont to be.