Or better yet kill them all and let God sort it out.
Easier peasier and also righter winger
/s
As they always say: Every complex problem has a simple, clear and erroneous solution.
Wow. I looked at the start of the thread, May 25.
Certainly not a case where the doctor says, “Relax. You’ll die of something else before you die of this.”
@Atamasama - have you watched “Mr. Bates vs the Post Office”?
I have had a couple people I know die of cancer this past year, and I’ve never witnessed it before. In both cases it seemed sudden, even though they had been sick for months or longer. But they seemed wholly alive and especially with my friend he was in such good spirits I just assumed there would be this obvious decline and then everyone would gather around his deathbed and he’d squeeze our hands and it would be this whole production before he actually died. Instead it was like, here he is making jokes online, ranting about politics as usual, and oh by the way I have another surgery this month, and then suddenly he’s dead. It’s not what I thought it was going to be. You always think you have more time.
I wonder if terminal illness is experienced the same way for the person dying.
I had a friend die of cancer last year. I visited him in hospice, and he was alert and talkative. I found out he died two days later.
My mother lived less then a week between her Cancer diagnosis and her passing away. She had a stomach ache that sent her to the ER twice. The first time they sent her home; the second time they admitted her. They discovered she had tumors throughout her stomach and liver that had come from her lungs. One doctor was telling us how treatment can buy her some time; another told us our mother was never leaving the hospital. Turned out he was telling us the truth.
It can all happen very fast.
I had a friend die of cancer a few years ago. She certainly knew when she was near the end. And she posted what was obviously intended as her final Facebook post, something saying goodbye, and all about love and Jesus and faith. She’s obviously spent some time composing it.
But actually dying took longer than she expected. And i think she must have gotten bored. Because there were two more Facebook posts after that, both somewhat morbid jokes with video game themes.
I Zoomed with someone with lung cancer for an hour in the evening. We spoke energetically on complex topics. By the time I woke up, they were dead.
I have not, but I like Toby Jones so I might check that out. Thanks!
My mother-in-law died of cancer a few years ago now, but yeah, I remember that we visited her six weeks before her death (we had known she was terminal for a few months) – she was sleeping more than usual and didn’t go out when we did with the kids, but other than that she was her usual chipper and upbeat self. She went to the hospital with fluid in her lungs four weeks after that. The two weeks after that was a lot of decline. So not quite as fast as some of the other stories, but still pretty fast. I think she might have held on for a bit for her kids to come visit – all three were able to come out and see her, and she basically died right afterwards.