Posted by sigismund on September 22, 2011, at 12:42:43
In reply to Re: McDonald's drive thru on Seroquel, posted by Phil on September 22, 2011, at 7:53:31
>If i'm ever diagnosed stage 4 lung cancer, I doubt that i'd take treatment. i watched my brother struggle through s.e.'s only to get 2 years.
The default position of the medical profession is to offer hope.
I had two friends recently die of cancer, and the one who didn't know and whose position was hopeless suffered much less. Just two months.
It's just this death fear thing. After my mother died the oncologist said come round for a chat. And there was a sense of disconnect then when he said 'What can I say?' And I thought 'But you asked us to come round', and it was, I realised, because he was trained to offer hope and his treatment might have be seen t have failed. I should have complimented him on his treatment which was pretty reasonable, but I was confused.
I will be saying to my doc eventually....Don't offer me hope, I don't need it, I need help dying.
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