If you were diagnosed with cancer, would you treat it due to SI or would you be able to resist and let the cancer kill you?

[Ambivalent1]

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[telro]

If I had terminal cancer then I would just request assisted suicide

 

[Valky]

Go for treatment and secretly hope that it kills me fast

 

[milkofcalcium]

I like the treatment option leading to death. I wish there ways to signal to healthcare professionals your preferred outcome so they could help ease the way, especially before the cost of treatment wreaks further havoc

 

[FuneralCry]

If I was diagnosed I would just wait to die and I would try to reduce any suffering that I experience during the process of dying. I think that those dying from terminal illnesses are fortunate as they have the knowledge that it's all coming to an end soon enough, the worst for me is being diagnosed with some incredibly horrific health condition that doesn't cause me to leave this world but just causes more unnecessary torture. This human body is such a repulsive prison, it's so disgusting how there isn't legalised assisted suicide.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'd ask if I could refuse treatment but still be administered pain control medication. I'd also enquire about assisted suicide- although I bet they'd want to try treatment first.

 

[ggetout33]

I wouldn't really be confident in my odds of survival since this is cancer we're talking about here. But if it was up to me I would go for a peaceful, assisted death.

And even if I did survive, it would suck and I wouldn't really get much quality of life. So death it is.

 

[Hollowman]

I wouldn't let it kill me that's pointless. I'd ctb asap.

 

[SCDLKD]

It would be the perfect excuse for an assisted and "justified" suicide. So i'd probably let the cancer do his thing

 

[Ambivalent1]

I wouldn't really be confident in my odds of survival since this is cancer we're talking about here. But if it was up to me I would go for a peaceful, assisted death.

And even if I did survive, it would suck and I wouldn't really get much quality of life. So death it is.

Euthanasia sounds wonderful. I want to see the look on the doctor's face if my cancer is highly treatable and I say I choose death lol

I wouldn't let it kill me that's pointless. I'd ctb asap.

Why?

 

[limerance1]

How agonizing is it to die from untreated cancer? Any insights or stories are welcome

 

[Hollowman]

Euthanasia sounds wonderful. I want to see the look on the doctor's face if my cancer is highly treatable and I say I choose death lol

Why?

Could be a long drawn out process, might as well get it over with sooner.

 

[Ambivalent1]

How agonizing is it to die from untreated cancer? Any insights or stories are welcome

It varies. Some cancers just make you tired and weak.

 

[loyalskateboard]

Obviously I don't know how I would react if actually placed in that situation. Having said that, I've been in hospital enough times for unrelated reasons that I wouldn't want to go through it again yet even worse. I'm sick of hospital and doctors. I think I would just want treatment to keep me comfortable but nothing like chemo or radiation.

 

[Scythe]

Some countries let terminally ill patients ,which would include cancer patients, to travel there and get assisted suicide. Not gonna miss that kinda chance.

 

[Someone123]

It would depend on how long it takes and how much pain is involved- at least it would be a way out.

 

[Duality]

It would depend. I thought about this, but the thought of the process being potentially drawn out makes me want to treat it first if the survival rate is high at that stage. Although I'd like to end my life, I do not want my quality of life to suffer too - being unable to breathe well, digest food properly, go to the washroom normally would really suck.

If I let myself get to that point then I'm sure assisted suicide would come easily, the doctor can easily make a case for that, but the important thing is that I don't want to let it get to that level just to be able to die peacefully. I want to end it before, when I am healthy and in my own space!

 

[macrocosm]

I fantasize about Getting terminal cancer.

 

[limerance1]

It varies. Some cancers just make you tired and weak.

Doesn't sound too bad

 

[Ambivalent1]

Doesn't sound too bad

One teenager died the same day he was diagnosed. It was on the news recently.

 

[illvoid]

I'd just take a shitload of morphine or something. Why suffer longer than I need to?

 

[Pidgeons_Sparrows]

let it kill me. sure its gonna hurt but people wouldnt even know it was CTB. the perfect cover up

 

[StolenLife]

I wouldn't even bother with the treatment, I would just wish for euthanasia.

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

While it ended up not being cancer, I can speak from personal experience that sometimes you can't just let something kill you, especially if you get a life threatening infection- because the doctors won't allow you to die.

I had several large tumors in my ovary and around lower GI tract that had leaked fluid into insides, was this close to getting sepsis according to the surgeon. The pain I went through for months with the tumors was excruciating, I couldn't go to the bathroom hardly at all and my partner had to give me enemas, which was incredibly painful humiliating and triggered my ptsd like crazy. The healthcare system constantly delayed everything and left me suffering for months and months.

When I was finally allowed to get an MRI scan, all of the medical staff were extremely worried I had cancer because of the appearence of one of my tumors. My red and white blood cells were out of wack as well and I was eat up with inflammation, so I had to go through a battery of blood tests to find out if I had ovarian cancer, and my tumors had to be biopsied. To be honest, I was begging for death. I didn't want to have surgery at all and would have easily let the tumors kill me since I have enough health problems already and would have been glad to finally be done, but it would have been agonising, slow, and painful death from sepsis.

Doctors won't really let you die or give you palliative care unless you have something imminently terminal that's incurable. I was pretty much told that if my condition got worse I wouldn't really have a say in what happened to me, lifesaving treatment would be forced because it's assumed that everyone wants to live by default and if you don't want something treated you're not of sane mind.

Everyone thought I was insane during the entire process. Even when doctors and techs were flitting around the prospect of cancer, I was at peace with my decision to not get treatment if that was the diagnosis, and I was not afraid to die. After all the pain and suffering I went through especially with the tumors, I just wanted to be dead and still do. Doctors and laypeople both did not comprehend this.

 

[SunflowerBrains]

M.A.I.D. Easy peasy. apparently if you're physically ill, in that sort of nature it's not too hard to get approved here in Canada. That's just word of mouth, though.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Thinking about this currently: I would probably attempt to end my life. I want my death to be by my own hand.

 

[igl00]

idk… I think if it was terminal cancer I would not try to fight it. If it was early stage yea I would fight it because the people around me would be shoving down the will to live down my throat.

 

[アホペンギン]

I'd let it kill me slowly and if it was debilitating then I'd apply for some sort of assisted suicide and get it over with, in peace.

 

[Celerity]

I have no desire to die slowly from a painful disease as my loved ones watch. That is what the gun bought at the Value Pawn is for, homie.

 

[miserablemarbles]

Would ask for hospice and lots of morphine and die slowly and high hopefully