# Men: would you choose certain death by cancer over penis amputation? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540 "2011-08-21T16:55:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/41 "2011-08-23T00:07:13Z")
I would think it over…but yeah, I would have the operation. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/42 "2011-08-23T04:57:31Z")
If it seemed like there really was no alternative, I’d definitely have the operation … in a day or two after one last whirlwind tour of the local brothels, heh. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/43 "2011-08-23T09:13:30Z")
I, like Chronos, went with the second option, for similar reasons. Cutting off any body part is just not something you do without thinking about it, even when you know the answer will be yes. ---
**Author:** ![Krouget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@Krouget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krouget)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/44 "2011-08-23T16:31:01Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I disagree about the torture as well. If you’ve watched anyone slowly die of cancer (which I have, several times), you might understand that death is sometimes a mercy. 100% agree, having also witnessed the same situation a few times. A slow cancerous death is not something easy, especially when the person believes they’ll get back to a somewhat normal life, and you know otherwise. That said, amputation would be my eventual choice, but it wouldn’t be one made easy or without its fair share of discomfort. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/45 "2011-08-23T18:40:09Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > this deserves all-caps: > > NOTHING CAN BE WORSE THAN DEATH. Says who? I’ve been not alive. It didn’t bother me at all, because I wasn’t alive. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/46 "2011-08-23T20:18:27Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > NOTHING CAN BE WORSE THAN DEATH. There are lots of things that are worse than death. But losing my johnson isn’t one of them. I could still enjoy a lot of things I enjoy now. I could still be a part of my community and make a contribution. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/47 "2011-08-23T21:12:47Z")
Tough choice. I’m young and still use Mr. Happy quite frequently. I thought about it and I would rather live without another orgasm ever then not live. It’s a close decision though and I’d definitely try and break several sex records between being told and going under the knife, probably try and talk the nurse into one last one as I was going unconscious too. ---
**Author:** ![TXCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/76d3ee/32.png) [@TXCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TXCowboy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/48 "2011-08-23T22:06:35Z")
I choose option 2, I would have to think it out, make sure all other options had been exhausted, and then break down and have the operation. And of course theres always those experiments they were doing with baby elephant trunks… (old joke) ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/49 "2011-08-25T00:42:44Z")
Chop it off. It is, after all, just a dick. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/50 "2011-08-25T21:46:43Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > We often disagree, **Dio** , so please do not take the next paragraph as a personal attack; I am honestly curious and not trying to do a gotcha. > > You’re a father with young children (a twelve-year-old daughter, no, if I recall aright). Isn’t that rather selfish of you? Do not your children deserve a living father if that is possible? Also curious. I’d be shocked if any father chose death; unless they were completely deadbeat and selfish, which Diogenes isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/51 "2011-08-25T22:58:20Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > Chop it off. It is, after all, just a dick. Is this a woosh? Cause I don’t get it. “just a dick” is not something you hear very much. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540/52 "2011-08-26T00:33:15Z")
I would throw in my eyes, ears, nose, and tongue as a bonus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-would-you-choose-certain-death-by-cancer-over-penis-amputation/593540.md?page=2)