They say the pain with bone cancer is so bad that the person actually dies of cardiac arrest. So I’d count that one out as a way that I’d want to exit this world.
A guy once told me that he had a pain under his chin that was so excruciatingly painful that “it felt like someone was holding a blowtorch to it.” And he said that when the doctor found out what was wrong with him, that he’d had a “minor” heart attack, he said if THAT was minor, he wanted nothing to do with a major one.
Most people die from either cancer or the big H; but in general, I’d like to know which means you think would be less excruciating, by which manner would you prefer to leave this world if you had to take one or the other?
As for me, I think colan cancer doesn’t sound all that bad. Get my affairs in order and just fade out. :dubious:
Having suffered neither a heart attack nor cancer and not having died before, I can only imagine that the comparatively fleeting pain of a heart attack is preferable to slowly being consumed by cancer.
Personally, I’ll go with being shot in the head while sleeping, assuming a 1920s style “death ray” set to insta-kill isn’t available.
Having been a charter member at the local cancer center for the past few years (I’m doing fine now) and seen a lot of people who’d been a lot worse off than I was for a lot longer, I’d have to choose a quick heart attack as the preferable way to go.
I sat at my uncles bedside and watched him die of cancer. “He” was gone for an hour before his heart would stop. It was one of the most difficult times of my life, made bearable only by the fact that the doctors had originally given him only 6 month, but we got to have him with us for seven years, most of which were relatively pain free and productive. He quit chemotherapy when the cancer spread to his bones, and only lived a year after that. Sad memories, but lots of happy ones to go with them.
I think this is going to be unanimous, especially among those of us who’ve watched a loved one die of cancer. My dad had three heart attacks, but he died of pancreatic cancer. I know he’d have chosen to go out with another coronary rather than endure those last few weeks of cancer.
Colon cancer!? One does not just “fade out” with colorectal cancer. It destroys your colon/rectum, whilst metastizing to your pelvic and upper leg bones, maight spread to your intestines and stomach, and pretty much renders you immobile, impotent and incontinent towards the end.
End-stage cancer blows way worse than an acute MI. Now, progressive, chronic heart disease can be as drawn out as cancer.
In terms of quick/minimal pain death-wise, go with a PE or a massive stroke. In both cases, you’re offline pretty much instantly.
Another vote for heart attack if that’s the only alternative. As a slight preference, I’d choose Irishgirl’sfibrillation/stroke combo.
But if all else were equal, I’d choose a bizarre bungee-jumping accident off the roof of the Senior Citizens’ Home in about 2050
Yes, I have seen 2 parents and a number of other relatives in various stages of cancer. Though they had time to set their affairs in order (one advantage over a heart attack), cancer is a filthy, filthy way to go.
