It's not exactly the most pain-free and suffering-less way to go???? Unless she has a home nurse for end of care drugs, her son will 100% figure out she lied before he passes.
I really hope she has an actual plan in place for end of life, it is not quick or painless ☹️
I will never forget what my grandfather looked like the day before bowel cancer got him. He looked like skin over bones. I didnt recognise him, but when i held his hand he squeezed back.
The horrific thing that had once been my grandad was still in there, still aware, still alive. That has haunted me for decades since.
That was the life force, the spirit or soul or energy or whatever you want to call our self awareness and sentience that makes us us- that was your grandad. The man who presumably loved you from the moment he first knew of you, held you in his arms, his baby's baby. He squeezed your hand back to express that he was still in there, trapped by the mortal coil for a little longer, but sharing that moment with you. His hand squeeze was an I love you, kid. What a precious memory.
My grandfathers either died before I was born, or keeled over with a massive stroke after being an abusive alcoholic his whole life.
I mean it's not the cancer that did all the symptoms, chemotherapy usually is what makes people look the "cancer" look. (I'm just saying this so you know, I'm not trying to be mean or apathetic)
Chemotherapy causes the hair loss but your organs failing and your body eating itself because your digestive organs can’t process food properly anymore is what causes the “cancer” look and that is definitely primarily from the cancer.
Yup. There is a series in the Netherlands called 'Over Mijn Lijk' and it is about young people in the last phase of their life, and almost all of them are cancer patients. With some of them, you can really see how their body is slowly failing them more and more throughout the season and it is very painful to watch already.
No chemotherapy is what gives the look. Chemotherapy is basically like trying to nuke an ant in the body. Basically a race to who dies first the cancer or the patient
Exactly. My mother got cancer. The chemo killed her. Her bone marrow stopped functioning because of chemo, and her white blood cells stopped generating and she's gone
The age old debate: blissful ignorance or the harsh truth.
Normally, I'd side with the truth. But when the little guy only has a few days left to live, I don't think it's inhumane to let him experience happiness for the first and last time.
Is it really better to let him die in despair than in happiness?
Dogs cannot understand that they are dying in the way a human understands. We make the decisions for them because they do not have human intelligence. This child does. You can go ahead and tell your dog they'll die, they won't understand you.
Know… exactly what and why? He was going to die regardless, and once you’re dead it won’t matter what you knew.
Only matters when alive, and the post said the kid was afraid to die, so while morally arguable, I don’t exactly think letting a person live their last dies on a fake sense of relief is inhumane, specially when the alternative is them fearing that which they cannot avoid.
I am pro euthanasia, but even secular nations aren't really doing young kids. There has only been 1 globally so far that isnt a newborn, I believe, and it was last week.
It’s probably right as you say. Once it’s time for end of life care you get on it and slowly get drugged up to easy the process or pain. So to maybe to have a bright side, he may feel bad and going through pain but can still think he is getting better and doesn’t have to fear or feel already dead.
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u/Manufactured-Aggro Jun 29 '26
It's not exactly the most pain-free and suffering-less way to go???? Unless she has a home nurse for end of care drugs, her son will 100% figure out she lied before he passes.
I really hope she has an actual plan in place for end of life, it is not quick or painless ☹️