Morphine is a blessing for those suffering extreme pain.
It is my opinion that Stage 1 or 2 cancers have a chance for a cure, but spending half a million dollars on chemo for a person over 75 with stage 4 or 5 cancer is almost always devastating, because even with a couple of months in remission the cancer re occurs shortly thereafter. Too much suffering with false hope, and I have seen that.
Better to let someone have that last six months in peace with their family. Of course it should be between them and their doctor, and not up to government to decide.
>> with stage 4 or 5 cancer
What is Stage 5? I only know of Stage 4: cancer that has metastasized to distant regions of the body. (For those cancers that are staged that way.)
Whats scary is...some Freepers are starting to believe in Unicon poop instead of financial reality...
“Wouldn't it be nice if they we “skittles””
Thanks, kackikat. He did pass in peace, at home, with me and his caregiver (and my mother). HE decided where he wanted to die, but the cancer decided the “when”—with as much morphine as he needed to deaden the pain.
The crime is the cost of the chemo. Hundred of Billions of tax dollars fund the War on Cancer research, and all they do is produce drugs that no one can afford.