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Why Doctors die differently
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-Ducky-
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Registered: 2001-6-1 14:21:49
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Why Doctors die differently
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I think I have read that article before, or one very similar to it. In fact, it came up in conversation today on another board I post on. I think I had read some doctors even get Do Not Resuscitate Tattoos on their chests because they feel so strongly about not being a "vegetable."
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Sgian_Dubh
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Registered: 2003-4-7 10:19:52
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It's funny that people say "I'd make the most of the time I had left"...
WTF have you been doing up to that point?
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gpputnam
Title: Why are you reading this?
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Registered: 2001-4-2 12:55:45
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Sgian_Dubh posted:
It's funny that people say "I'd make the most of the time I had left"...
WTF have you been doing up to that point?
life happens when you're making plans...
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Ferrydust
Title: Iron Chef Jennifer
Posts: 938
Registered: 2002-9-4 20:32:54
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Sgian_Dubh posted:
It's funny that people say "I'd make the most of the time I had left"...
WTF have you been doing up to that point?
posting on ACF
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-Mithan-
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Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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Sgian_Dubh posted:
It's funny that people say "I'd make the most of the time I had left"...
WTF have you been doing up to that point?
The irony I find in it is that it is pointless.
Somebody "dead" doesn't know if they had a good time or a crappy time on the planet. They are dead. Done. Period.
Unless there is some mythical energy source that retains memories that humanity has yet to detect, it matters not, except in the present.
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Ferrydust
Title: Iron Chef Jennifer
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Registered: 2002-9-4 20:32:54
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-Mithan- posted:
Sgian_Dubh posted:
It's funny that people say "I'd make the most of the time I had left"...
WTF have you been doing up to that point?
The irony I find in it is that it is pointless.
Somebody "dead" doesn't know if they had a good time or a crappy time on the planet. They are dead. Done. Period.
Unless there is some mythical energy source that retains memories that humanity has yet to detect, it matters not, except in the present.
STOP TRYING TO CHEER US UP
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-Mithan-
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Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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Ferrydust posted:
-Mithan- posted:
Sgian_Dubh posted:
It's funny that people say "I'd make the most of the time I had left"...
WTF have you been doing up to that point?
The irony I find in it is that it is pointless.
Somebody "dead" doesn't know if they had a good time or a crappy time on the planet. They are dead. Done. Period.
Unless there is some mythical energy source that retains memories that humanity has yet to detect, it matters not, except in the present.
STOP TRYING TO CHEER US UP
There is nothing cheery about death. It is the end of our consciousness, which is why people will try to survive even when there is a 5% chance of survival. It's still better than ZERO.
The doctor, having experienced mass death over time, begins to accept it as he/she ages.
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AynRand
Title: Human and Animal Chiropractor
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Registered: 2002-5-19 18:48:26
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We need a "Like" button.
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Jezza_Belle
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Registered: 2001-2-24 02:29:30
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-Accident- posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
I think most people faced with 5-15% odds would choose to live the rest of their time in peace, not in the agony that is cancer treatment.
I don't know about that necessarily. This guy was 68 years old, odds are his kids were grown, if he had any. If it happened to me right now, my kids are ages 6 and 7. Getting even just a couple more years with them would be huge and that could be well worth the agony IMO.
I don't know what kind of history you have, but IMO I have a bit of a unique perspective at least among most of the people around here, having been through cancer treatment, and I know that my treatment while being pretty awful, was not nearly as bad as some kinds of cancer treatments get.
Once you get to the point that you are in constant pain, can't eat, can't sleep, can't piss or sh*t worth a damn, maybe you have a tube inserted directly into your gut because you can't keep anything down. You don't have the energy to go up/down the stairs of your house, let alone get outside, see family and spend time with them. They end up seeing you die a very graphic prolonged death that will affect them forever.
Not really what I want for the end of my life.
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Caoilin
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Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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i'd need a fairly huge survival chance to under go the torture that is treating cancer.
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