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That's something cause hospice dumps the morphine on you out here to stop pain.

So what did you do?

Carry a suicide pill under your shirt collar?
Or if the Bad guys got close you were going to shoot yourself in the head?

We are talking cancer here, not war zone.

Not to mention that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that your family would spend to keep that heart pumping.

Keeping you around to suffer longer while they irrevocably destroy their own lives with endless debt to pass on to the next several generations.

That's not stewardship.

As I recall, my Savior chose to lay his life down for those He loved.

Her life, her choice. She isn't a hero or a coward. She is scared of suffering, and scared of the suffering that she will put her family through. She is just a girl who has been dealt a [bleep] hand, and that is about the end of it. I don't admire her, I pity her.

Cancer IS a warzone.

But, whatever...

Like Pat, I have had my say in this.

Armchair quarterbacking someone's life is as wrong as any other instance of speculation on circumstances that haven't been personally experienced. How do people die? How should they die? These are questions that only God can answer. If you don't believe in God, you have a different perspective. I will stick with a belief in God.

There is nothing to tear at your heart, as to have a conversation with your daughter that is battling cancer and have her tell you she doesn't want to die. Being afraid of dying is different. For years we talked about everything, death wasn't something we talked about, but as the years progressed we understood it could shorten her life, substantially.

She was a wonderful person, robbed of one of her most valuable possessions, time. There is nothing fair about cancer and to try and understand it from a human perspective is impossible. I believe in God and that His plan, though different than mine, is somehow better.

We didn't talk about a convenient time for her to end her life, we stood by her and hoped for any miracle that would save her. It never happened and I sat in a hospital room, holding her hand as she took her last breath and cried.

That has been almost 4 years ago, I still cry every day, there is nothing like the loss of a child.

I see two different philosophies here. Some of us want to have absolute control and try to compartmentalize our lives for some satisfaction of control and organization. To those who do that, I am not condemning them, but I feel a stronger association with God and that it isn't up to us to make our lives so convenient that we forget who we are and why we are here.

Cancer is a merciless killer and I can't understand it, I miss Paige every day...

Lots of drugs to prevent pain in this country.

The amount of powerful drugs required to control the pain that many of these unfortunate people have renders them unable to interact with their loved ones because it decreases their level of consciousness so much. It also suppresses their respirations to the degree that they are struggling to breathe...often they are just barely breathing...like a fish out of water. They become incontinent of urine, they become incontinent of stool. They can't even manage their own secretions in their mouth...much less eat or drink anything.

The amount of powerful drugs required to control the pain that many of these unfortunate people have renders them unable to interact with their loved ones because it decreases their level of consciousness so much. It also suppresses their respirations to the degree that they are struggling to breathe...often they are just barely breathing...like a fish out of water. They become incontinent of urine, they become incontinent of stool. They can't even manage their own secretions in their mouth...much less eat or drink anything.

I have no problem with them killing her if that's what they want to do.

explained to me that the actual cause of death is overdose of morphine