to live or not to live

i wouldnt wish to prolong my sufferings to undergo the treatment and we never know that our cancer will be cured if ever i surpass all the treatment. Its also a waste of money and time to your family and the people that close to you.

Thats not true, so many who have the "big c "as you call it. fight it with their many diffrent treatment. and all the money later. and go into remission. were it is gone no more. then you can live your life just as you would before you found out. there no pain no suffering whatever. I would NEVER just give up and die.. im not a quitter.

I'm to stubborn. I would try to treat it. Life is to precious just to throw it away even if hurts quite a bit in my opinion.

I would try to take advantage of every treatment available, and only stop when the doctors say that it is hopeless. And I also will take advantage if they saw that it is a new procedure and I am the first dying human being they have tried it on. I figure that is the best way to handle things, and I really do not think that I am making a sacrifice if I tell the doctors to not try something that has worked in other cases. And that money does not go to your family, it stays in the hospital and the medical profession. They will not give your family a larger check after you go if you refuse treatment.

I will do whatever they can find to prolong my life since I want to see as much of my grandchildren's lives as I can.

Personally I just accept it as part of life if it is my time to go its just that my time I cant do anything about it really I already had cancer myself well bladder cancer anyway at 17 O_o but hey things happen when they are meant to happen.

I think it depends on the stage of cancer that you are in. Not doing anything about it affects the lives of people around us. Our near and dear ones would be trying a lot to find a cure or to make us comfortable. Lead the life at the fullest that you can. Enjoy the moments that you have left. Knowingly we wait for the end, but think about the people who lose their life suddenly.

This has two sides to it. If the cancer has not metastasized and the recovery chances are good then fighting is a good thing. If the opposite is true then I would opt for ending the battle. I believe in quality living and because I have worked with terminal cases I have developed this attitude. I live in Oregon and I agree with the beliefs of the Hemlock Society.

If ever it will happen to me, i think i would choose to die rather than suffering for days or years. Thus, it is painful to my family seeing my agony at the same time it is also painful on my part. It hard to accept the reality if ever, but, i think i would rather.

I know we see commercials about people surviving cancer by the treatments. My father had lukemia and opted not to have the chemo and do nothing about his. It went into remition without him doing anything. I'm not saying that if I got any kind of cancer the same thing would happen. I just think the doctors don't nkow as much as they try to led people to believe. And when it's time for us to go we will no matter what is done for us. I opt for the second one. I wouldn't put myself through the h___ of chemo. I have a friend that does and she is so sick after her treatments. My children are grown, my grandchildren have had time with me. I have enough other things wrong that the pain I go through daily is enough. So having cancer would just add to the others. I am not going to put myself through all the treatments and then leave my family with medical bills. I have insurance but it only pays so much and if cancer is involved most times insurance cuts you off. They don't pay anywhere near enough. Leaving us to pay the rest. I'm not going to pay for someone to cause me more sickness and pain. Not anymore than I'll already be going through. If it's my time I will go no matter what. I try to live life to the fullest at any rate even now.

I choose to live, if you have strong faith in God. Only faith can heal your sickness even it's deadly or not. But ofcourse, no matter what happens just accept it, God has purpose giving you that sick. Just prepare yourself.

It's a question.I had a aunt.She had treated me very well.But I always misunderstand her,at which I am alway filled with guilt .She had a serious cancer of heart.In fact,before a shock,I never really realized importance of this thing.In common life,I felt she had me felt embarrassed,so I always care about hurting her.But those things which you never hoped finally happened.After this thing,I knew she was always cared me,but I cared her in a wrong way.I took it in my heart.While I was in school,I heard suddenly that she had over sleeping pills,due to standing not wakefulness and in addtion,heart disease.When I heard it ,I felt shocked.I will live with a permanent pity.Sorry,I talked something else.I think however serious cancer you have,you must be faced with it ,and keep a good frame of mind.It is best way to be responsible for you and those who care you.

I personally would rather face it and enjoy every second left than prolonging the agony of my family.

Its hard for us to digest the truth that we had Cancer after all these years of our sweet life and we are going to die after some time and before the actual time. Its a fact that there is no cure for Cancer in the further stages so its no choice left for us than to bow for the fate and live the life up to the end with happiness and satisfaction all around us. We like to spend the most of the remaining time of our life with our friends and relatives and we also like to share that life with our enemies because this is the time to do whatever they can as there is no more life after some time. Its hard for us to be happy but we even smile at this situation at the early days we know this fact and at the end of our life we raise our hopes to live.

Well, just like the characters in the movie,"The Bucket List" they decided to accept their fate and do things that they never do just to enjoy the remaining days of their life. Life is too short and we have to live everyday as if it's our last but we have to be very cautious in every decisions we make. I'll say " I LOVE YOU" more to all people that I love and I would never ever do things that may hurt their feelings. I want them to feel that they are so special to me.

If the cancer is not so seriously I will live. Once I still can live decently by myself, and don't suffering a lot from the concer I will choose live. If I really suffers a lot from the cancer, and it's show I will not be recovery anytime under any treatment. I will choose die, live is not a good thing to me then.

I wouldn't want the treatment, no. It makes people really ill, their hair falls out and they are in pain all the time. I'd rather be just the way I am and not go through that just to prolong it - it would be better for my family for it to be quick, I feel. In fact, I'd rather not even know I had it - I'm not a fighter.

For me, i`ll take the alternative medicine,much cheaper and there are people i know who survived. Well of course early detection helps to cure cancer. We must also be aware of what we eat, our lifestyle... it`s a big factor

This is quite interesting to me. Well, for me i would take it. I`ll try all my best to suffer for all the treatments necessary for me but of course i will also pray to God that i can`t overcome the cancer after all the treatments given to me i will thank HIM for HE gave me such wonderful life and now before i die i will enjoy the rest of my life with my family. We dont know when our life ends and only God knows. I do believe that HE is the master of my fate.

pray and have faith. i mean really have faith. ive heard a story before about a girl who has a tumor in her eye. after weeks of treatment there was no sign of the tumor decreasing in size so the girl desperate, because she will be blind from one eye, prayed all night and she just focused on the tumor and prayed to god the next day the doctors were surprised because the tumor was has gone!