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Elmador_MoK  1 star
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I can respect that kind of decision, but as for imo, do not go gentle into that good night.

 

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-Foxy-  5 stars
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Jezza_Belle posted:

-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.



this is why ppl should be allowed to go out as they wish. to end their life when they are ready to do so. not have to be made to suffer because the law says they arent allowed to and drs/ppl cant help.

 

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Fozzie_Bear  4 stars
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way too much "serious" up in this thread.... retiring to the sharpie thread for a while

 

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-Foxy- posted:

Jezza_Belle posted:

-Accident- posted:

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.



this is why ppl should be allowed to go out as they wish. to end their life when they are ready to do so. not have to be made to suffer because the law says they arent allowed to and drs/ppl cant help.


Can't.

Western society is based on christian values and the bible says you have to let death take you as it sees fit.

I think this is stupid. Not everybody follows the bible, so it should be allowed.

On the flip side, there obviously has to be controls in place. We don't need "death panels" deciding if we live or die.

Anyways, Doctors kill people all the time by "request", it is just kept quiet and only the doctor and the family ever knows about it.

 

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NeoKarnak  2 stars
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Registered: 2009-12-21 18:31:34
Fozzie_Bear posted:

way too much "serious" up in this thread.... retiring to the sharpie thread for a while



LMAO! That will cheer someone up quick.

 

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Ungabhunga  2 stars
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I thought Doctors died differently because they keep changing the timeline.

 

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Anebriated  3 stars
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the article sounds like doctors die differently because they are more educated, especially about end of life situations.

if everyone simply had a very good advanced directive the enormous expenses and difficult decisions that have to be made for people without them would cease. no one would be kept on life support for months because it isn't clear what the patient would want.

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