Where you said you would refuse cancer treatment.
there is NO history of cancer in my family. Neither side.
Mine neither.
All people have the exact same life span.
Well, Jeanne Calment lived to be 122. Your wife's first husband died at 27. Hmmmmm...
I have no desire to prolong it.
Wow! Without treatment, you could die from an infected toe nail. So I take it you don't seek treatment for any formerly terminal diseases.
I guess you are old...and a luddite.
—I guess you are old...and a luddite.—
When it comes to medical treatment, yes, I am a luddite.
BTW, I didn’t mention that when my wife’s first husband died, the hospital was expressly told to not take certain life saving procedures. They did anyway, to the tune of a couple hundred thousand dollars, and then he died.
We were designed by our creator to be self healing and self replicating. Ever since the AMA lost the long suit with the Chiropractors, I’ve lost respect for the medical community at many levels. They are a for-profit industry. My father in law is almost 90 and is in the hospital AGAIN as I type this. He’s been to the hospital for prolonged stays about 1/3 of the time for the last several years. And this includes many, MANY costly surgeries. He’s practically an invalid, but at least he’s a good profit center for the medical profession.
In my case, I prefer to treat this body I occupy like I would treat a car I own. I only get the one. I’ll take care of it, use good gas, keep the oil changed, touch up paint nicks and one day it will just wear out. It’s what they do. The boomer generation seems to forget that. I suspect it is the loss of a spiritual perspective that causes that. After all, if this life is all there is, I suppose I’d want to preserve my body as long as possible. But I have something better waiting on the other side.
I don’t expect agnostics or atheists to understand this.