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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I guess none of us would know how they'd feel unless it was THEIR LIFE on the line.
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I'm glad I learned about this ahead of time, so, if I'm ever in this situation, I'll know better than to make things worse by prolonging the inevitable.
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None of us can make those kinds of decisions for anyone else. And the ten days is just a guess. Sometimes it turns into much longer.
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That's why it was stated "3 months on average". With the pills, it could be 2 months or 4 months. She mentioned one such drug that destroys the stomach lining. So if you don't have enough pain with the cancer, you will have another pain to cope with as well.
No one can make the decision for anyone else but we can inform people so that they might make better decisions if they ever get diagnosed with terminal cancer.