Terminal Cancer Experiences

My mom fought cancer at great expense and with everyone's support, and just ended up prolonging her suffering. When my dad was diagnosed with cancer a few years later, remembering that experience, he fought pretty much everyone and declined treatment, and died swiftly. If my turn comes and my odds are about as bad as theirs, I may well prefer to follow his example.

Having witnessed the terminal stages of several family members, additional days of being undead is not necessarily desirable for the patient.

You seem to be getting downvoted. Not sure why.I've had someone in the family who got cancer. It was basically how you said it would be. They lived their life to the fullest, not thinking about the untreatable cancer. Do whatever is fun and makes you happy.At some point it got bad. No more living your life. There were bad moment. There were better moments. There were worse moments. I only saw it from afar until the very end. The last bit must have been hell for the closest family. It

My Mum died slowly from lung cancer over almost three years. It spread to basically every organ in her body, she was taking so much chemo they eventually said they had to stop or the chemo would kill her before the cancer would. The intense pain, humiliation and knowing it was a certain death sentence hung over her every single minute of every single day.My family would have given anything to have been allowed access to assisted suicide by the end.And I guarantee you would too.Anyone th

When the alternative is terminal cancer not much.

What if I don't have a terminal illness.

He fought cancer over the course of 7 years, and it sounds like his quality of life was reasonable for most of that time.I think pretty much everyone would rather die than linger on in a hospital bed without hope. At a certain point, utility of future life becomes negative and returning to a positive state is not possible. The problem is that it's not so clear cut and obvious at the time that this is the case. A big part of this is that doctors often want to save the patient at all costs, and

The doctor's response to the question if he'd recommend her mother to go through cancer treatment reminded me a lot of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 [How Doctors Die]... why is the standard answer still to make people suffer for extending their life just a few months or years?

Thank you for sharing your experience. Weirdly enough, it's liberating to know that this could be a cure-proof terminal state.

If you have cancer, and have been sick for months or years, and are in great pain, is death the worst thing to happen to you? It may be bad for your family and loved ones - but for you, it may very well be relief.Mercy and palliative care is something I think forgotten all too often in medical care in the US, we focus so much on the cure at all costs, and less on the outcome or realistic outcome rather.