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JealousOfTheElderly

In death, life echoes. In life, death calls.
Aug 28, 2020
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Does anyone here know anyone who has died from cancer? What about untreated cancer? How bad is it and how much suffering is involved?
 
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enduringwinter

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Jun 20, 2024
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Unimaginably painful I'd say. Late stage cancer metastasises everywhere. You'll probably have trouble breathing, thinking, eating, drinking, going to the bathroom.

My grandfather passed from untreated brain cancer and it looked entirely peaceful (he went in his sleep) but he was the type of person who never showed any sign of suffering. He survived unspeakable horrors all his life and there was never a moment where he was not perfectly calm, happy, graceful and kind. It scares me to this day the strength it must've taken.
 
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whywere

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Well, I will start with my experience with cancer and then go onto the experiences I have had with others who died from the horrible disease.

Back in March 2014, my middle section was aching horribly and they thought that it was stomach ulcers. NOPE! It was gall bladder cancer. I went and had my gall bladder out the same day and then the chemo. Nothing ever could prepare a person for chemo. Living hell, the stomach problems, loss of all body hair and the list goes on. In March 2015, I was declared cancer free, thank GOD!

I have seen folks die from lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer (both a man and a woman) and ovarian cancer. All the forms had the poor souls on so much fentanyl or some form of pain meds that some were zonked out from it.

All of them had horrible pain, and like @enduringwinter mentioned eating, drinking, going to the bathroom, cleaning oneself, all of it was painful and a lot of them just gave up. One guy I knew who had stage 4 lung cancer, he just went to hospice, he had like 2 months left and was on machines and so much pain meds that the couple of times that I visited him, he not only did not remember/know me but did not know any of his surrounds. Made me cry, so sad.

I wish cancer on NO ONE EVER. There are ways of moving on (dying) but cancer would never ever be on my list.

Love and caring well wishes to everyone here always.

Walter
 
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Cress

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Does anyone here know anyone who has died from cancer? What about untreated cancer? How bad is it and how much suffering is involved?
As someone who's witnessed a family member passed away from late stage cancer it's unbelievably painful. I would strongly urge against this. No one deserves to suffer like that.
 
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sos

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what's up with the interest in it
 
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Kali_Yuga13

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Unimaginably painful I'd say. Late stage cancer metastasises everywhere. You'll probably have trouble breathing, thinking, eating, drinking, going to the bathroom.

My grandfather passed from untreated brain cancer and it looked entirely peaceful (he went in his sleep) but he was the type of person who never showed any sign of suffering. He survived unspeakable horrors all his life and there was never a moment where he was not perfectly calm, happy, graceful and kind. It scares me to this day the strength it must've taken.
I'd like to be more like your grandfather. Do you think all the therapy and talking about feelings in our culture has softened people?

Cancer scares me. I view having a ctb solution for old age as a type of insurance against being stuck in something like hospice.
 
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itsover090

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Feb 1, 2024
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Eu tive cancer dos 20 aos 23, é horrível, as quimioterapias te destroem lentamente em todas as aplicações...
 
enduringwinter

enduringwinter

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Jun 20, 2024
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I'd like to be more like your grandfather. Do you think all the therapy and talking about feelings in our culture has softened people?
I do believe intellectualising and medicalising everything is very detrimental. But my grandfather is a survival bias case. His peers were likely normal "soft" people too, they just didn't make it.
 
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J&L383

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Jul 18, 2023
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Does anyone here know anyone who has died from cancer? What about untreated cancer? How bad is it and how much suffering is involved?
If you are "lucky" the cancer will take you relatively quickly. My father died from pancreatic cancer (one of the most aggressive and quickest) without too much discomfort, but it certainly wasn't a cakewalk. But much of the time cancer works slowly and lasts months if not years. Palliative care (mainly opioids) helps with the pain but it can only do so much.

If you do get cancer you can always refuse treatment and let nature take its course.
 
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JealousOfTheElderly

In death, life echoes. In life, death calls.
Aug 28, 2020
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If you do get cancer you can always refuse treatment and let nature take its course.
That's my plan... hence why I posted the question! Sounds like an awful way to go for the most part.
 
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whywere

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Jun 26, 2020
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no, I do not.
Hi!

Having had gall bladder cancer, I wish with all my might that you never get any form of it as the pain associated with it can be, in my case it was off the charts, REALLY painful. One cannot even think of anything else.

You are family to/for me, I have no family nor friends, as that is why I do not even want to think about you getting something like cancer ever.

Stay safe and have a great rest of this week, my good friend.

Walter
 
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