[Cboldt]

But how do we know what people in a PVS think? That's the issue.

Oh. As for people who are "thinking about dying," I don't think the thoughts of the group of people who have cancer (and it's pain and so forth) are going to be similar to the thoughts of a group of people who don't have cancer.

It is interesting, how people with cancer vacillate between "I want to die" and "I don't want to die." I can think of times that I felt like I'd like to die. Sometimes from sheer embarrassment ;-)

[spectre]

People with terminal cancer fight for their lives, but if the time comes that the fight is futile, all that person and their family are concerned with is pain management and slipping peacefully away.

Thank God for Hospice.

sw