Would you choose to have treatment to extend your life. Or would you choose to let nature take it's course and die with no intervention?
2007-05-25 17:54:47 · 24 answers · asked by kitkat1640 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I would do whatever I could to stay alive. The "secret" to life is not dying. But if or when my time came then I would accept it because I am not afraid of death, it happens to everyone and technically, it's part of Life.
2007-05-25 18:01:02 · answer #1 · answered by 2BaD4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
B
why the thumb down? I meant B as in the second choice. The first choice was A (choose to have treatment to extend your life), second choice was B (choose to let nature take it's course and die with no intervention).
2007-05-26 00:57:00 · answer #2 · answered by Dy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would depend on a number of things:
-how quickly the cancer would kill me without the treatment
-how painful the treatment would be (quantity of life isn't always an even trade with quality of life)
-my age when I learned about this - at age 97, I probably won't care about extending life...at age 25, I might care a lot.
2007-05-26 00:59:07 · answer #3 · answered by Mel 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on how long I would live, and how painful treatment/no treatment would be. I think that I would lufe out my life with minimal (but some) intervention. I wouldn't go to great lengths though.
2007-06-02 17:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a really serious question. I would ask the doctor for the
"mortality rate". My 1st cousin has cancer that has moved into her organs. This one is not good and the answer for me (for me!) would be not at that point. It really depends on how advanced the cancer is and what the mortality rate would be. Different cancers have different life mortality rates. Usually, if the mortality rate is anywhere near possible or even below possible survival, I would opt for the treatment!! God bless
2007-05-26 01:06:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know where you are going with this but take it from a Cancer survivor, all Cancer is terminal unless treatment works. There is no guaranteed survival. And if it doesn't get you the first time, three or five years later, it can come back.
And each time you face it, that question goes through your mind. And, each time it does, you decide to fight it with everything you've got.
No one survives forever. Anytime we can steal from the Grim reaper is time well spent. But, when the inevitable happens, don't fear him.
2007-05-26 01:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on what kind of cancer it was and how it responded to the treatment. If it did not decrease my quality of life too much, then I'd probably have it. If it made me miserable and sick, the answer is no. I would rather have a little bit of wonderful instead of a whole bunch of awful.
2007-05-26 01:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by Rikki 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've been through it and lived, so I'd choose treatment again unless it was in ALL of my bones and there was no reason to try.
2007-06-02 21:24:18 · answer #8 · answered by wwhrd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Die with no intervention, and never tell a single soul!
2007-05-26 00:58:00 · answer #9 · answered by ~4NOW~ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Treatment I want to fight ever step of the way.
2007-06-02 23:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by DeCaying_Roses 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋