# Kentucky goes to hospital for a circumcision and gets his penis amputated.

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**Created:** [August 19, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-goes-to-hospital-for-a-circumcision-and-gets-his-penis-amputated/593366 "2011-08-19T20:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-goes-to-hospital-for-a-circumcision-and-gets-his-penis-amputated/593366/4 "2011-08-19T20:25:55Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> You can always choose to kill yourself if an un-phallused life is so onerous. You cannot bring yourself back to life if you die of cancer.

But very few cancers will kill you in a day. I’d think waking him up and letting him know would have been appropriate. We obviously don’t have the facts, but I’d think that chemotherapy would have perhaps been an option, or even radiation (where you might end up needing to lose your testicals anyway, but at least you’d have a penis).

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