Freedom? What am I missing here? My Post didn’t advocate the Government getting involved, but I know people who live in a fantasy world where they think some magic herb will kill their Cancerous Tumor.
A close friend is battling Breast Cancer with what I consider “Voodoo” Enzyme Treatments, and she is losing. It’s none of my business, it’s her Life.
If you don’t go the Doctor, are they coming to your House to force you to go for Treatment now? I am advocating the idea that People can choose to be stupid. That’s freedom.
I have been battling Leukemia for nearly ten years. If I decided to refuse treatment, that’s my business. In fact, things have made a turn for the worse and Chemotherapy is becoming much less effective in maintaining my Blood levels. Up till now, it has kept my disease at bay. If I hadn’t gone for proven Treatment when I was first Diagnosed, I would have died five years ago.
I may have to decide very soon if I want to go ahead with a Bone Marrow Transplant, a very unpleasant experience that could end up killing me sooner than if I did nothing.
It will be my choice to do it or not. That is my Freedom of choice and I have it now without getting permission from the Government.
I will assume that you misread the intent of my earlier Post. I have faith in proven Treatments, not in silly ideas that have never worked out. What people decide for themselves is none of my business, but I can express an opinion on their choice, which is all that I am doing.
I don’t think another Law is needed, just as you do.
We are on the same side of this issue.
I must have misunderstood...and truly wish you the best in your battle. Prayers for a good outcome soon.
I agree with you, KC.
I had a young friend whose oncologists told her there was no hope. There was nothing they could do for her. So, she tried every alternative treatment she could find. Even though none of those alternative treatments worked for her, she did not regret trying them because they gave her HOPE. Hope is what keeps patients going. Who knows what might work?
OTOH, my dear father suffered and was refused all help, all hope. I wish he’d been given a “right to try.” It took months to find doctors willing to try something, but it was too late by then.
I never heard of “Right to Try” laws before now. A quick search produced some more information:
We all know that the FDA process holds up lifesaving medicines sometimes (if not all the time). If “Right to Try” laws give terminal patients greater access to promising medicines, that can’t be a bad thing.
By the way, best wishes to you, KC. I have a relative who’s been surviving the same disease for years, thanks to a miracle pill.