Hypothetical question??

[Lostacresranch]

I'm not going to financially destroy my family, wallow in self pity and leave them with the last memory of me as a living corpse smelling like road kill. Seen that too many times.

[jmeghunts]

I think I would just hide it from my family and let nature take it's course; maybe tell them once I got to the point of no return so to speak. I don't want to deplete all the savings just so I can suffer through treatments or be bed ridden. I have saved that cash to enjoy life, not set there and wish things would've turned out better. If my wife and son can mourn and move on to enjoy their days without financial burden then I have done my job on this earth.

I get the argument that this would basically be suicide. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't but no matter what the old timers have told you, people don't go to hell for committing suicide.

[Ironman]

Pharmaceutical companies are betting on you wanting to live.

[Razrbk89]

Pharmaceutical companies are betting on you wanting to live.

And nursing homes. Talk about a crock...

[Ætheling]

I know what you are getting at, if it was gonna be years in the hospitals fighting cancer or some disease and eating up everything I intended to leave to them than that's a problem. Already told the wife when its time its time and Ill just have to go on a one man fishing trip for Tuna out in the gulf by myself with enough gas to get me one way in a 16 ft center console.

[TX_Hoghunter]

If I had a decent chance for recovery then I would get treatment. If treatment was just going to prolong the thing I think I would not treat it and just try to enjoy whatever life I had left.

-john

[Mayhem]

Hypothetical question??

If the prognosis was terminal and certain death either way, I would not spend the money to keep me hanging on.

I would enjoy the time I had left with my family and then go meet my savior.


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[Mike Javi Cooper]

I can relate this... a few years ago I had some bad health issues and after many tests the doctors diagnosed me with pancreatic cancer... in the initial meeting with my wife and I, the doctor went over the prognosis and warned us to get our affairs in order...

Then went on to discuss possible treatments and recovery percentages... I thanked him and went home to await exploratory surgery in a few days...

Told them at the pre-surgery meeting that if it came to it, that I would forgo any and all treatment.... period... I would not destitute my family for a few weeks of life...

Fortunately for me the initial diagnosis was wrong and my issue was solved with two surgeries...

For me it is a no brainer... I watched my Mom & Dad go through more than a million dollars with his Alzheimer's and after he passed, she is all but destitute...

Not gonna happen to my wife if I can help it... NOPE..

[tex4k]

No one has tomorrow promised today, my family knows I'm going to die, it's part of life. My family knows what assets I have for them and how they are to be distributed, I will not use a dollar of those assets to try to prolong my life, but then again I'm getting away from conventional medicine and its cost now, I'm currently studying to be the village witch doctor that way I'll live forever.

[TXBowhunter11]

I feel like I could go out with a bang a lot cheaper than I could trying to cure my sickness

[Tmag]

I'm gonna spend as much time I can with these younguns, when it gets too bad to handle I have a great nurse of a daughter that works for home hospice. It's a win win for me.

[BrianL]

This is a question that you have to actually have in front of you before you will know the answer.

Many times at the end, treatments are to keep the pain down as much as possible, not for the recovery.

But to the OP question, I think your question is a little "loaded" in the way you asked it.

Would I fight the "C" if it meant an extra week, month, year, 5 years..... Depends.

Would I want my wife to fight if it meant an extra week, month, year... Probably

Would I want my kid to fight if it meant and extra day, week, month, year... Absolutely!

[Raider Power]

If it was terminal I wouldnt seek any treatment. They can just throw me in a ditch on the side of the road when I'm done. I won't care I'll be dead.

[TxDispatcher]

I get the argument that this would basically be suicide. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't but no matter what the old timers have told you, people don't go to hell for committing suicide.

I don't get that argument at all. No one will live forever. Period. We are all gonna die one day. If I decide I want my days to be of the best quality instead of bedridden due to chemo/other treatment stealing any quality of living, how is that suicide? People are ignorant

I watched my grandfather steal his quality of life for an extra 2 years on earth. I don't think I wanna do that should the day come in my later years. Now if I get diagnosed in the next 10-15 years and my health is better able to withstand the chemo/treatments? Who knows...but I don't wanna leave my wife and kids in a bind just to live for another year or two of miserable life.

[Truckville]

Heisenberg style