If you would get a terminal disease, would you seek treatment?

[cornflowerblue]

Suppose you would receive quality free treatment. Would you accept it?

I would get palliative care and any treatments that increase my comfort. I would not pursue curative treatment.

 

[andy69]

Yes.

 

[been_there]

No.

 

[Kringle's Curse]

I probably would refuse treatment and just smoke a shit ton of weed til my time is up.

 

[Xaphous]

A low level pain terminal Illness with a couple weeks to live would be a godsend, but no the people that need that the least get it.. fucking nature

 

[Bulletwbttrflywings]

No. The answer is simple for me because I don't have any health insurance...

 

[Kringle's Curse]

No. The answer is simple for me because I don't have any health insurance...

Same here

 

[TimeToDie]

I wouldn't accept anything except pain meds. I wouldn't try to prolong my "life" if you can even call it that.

I agree, though I would take all palliative care rather than only pain meds. Palliative care would include sedation such that you could be relaxed or even unconscious such that dying doesn't bother you. Actually, a terminal illness with being drugged out of my mind actually might be superior to not being terminal and having to blow my head off with a shotgun. I don't know how good palliative care really is since when my dad was dying in home hospice care he just go some Vicodin (which are too fucking large to swallow when elderly & dying!) and a dinky little dose of Ativan which wasn't enough to do a damn thing. If I'm dying I damn well went a shitload of opioids and I want something that will actually sedate me unlike benzos which I find totally useless.

And that was back in 2005 long before the "opioid epidemic" (read: War On Pain Patients) and still he couldn't get "real" opioids. Then in 2015 I got to watch mom die in the hospital and she was begging for pain meds and was in such agony that she said she wished she were dead. The same begging for pain meds happened a decade prior when she got a knee replacement, so I'm well aware of how the fucking sadists in the medical community totally disregard patients & their pain. They only care about keeping people alive, even if in agony, as they simply can't show mercy and give adequate medication as that runs the "risk" of hastening death, as if one is seriously going to worry about death when they're 86-years-old! This might remind you of the anti-suicide folks who merely want to give us alive, and who don't give a flying fuck about the great mental and/or physical pain that makes us want to CTB.

 

[Vegrau]

Of course not. Why would I.

 

[Jolene40]

I would not seek treatment even if I was in pain, but that's just me. As I said I don't want to offend anyone or belittle anyone's suffering by saying I wouldn't seek treatment. It's just the truth for me. That's how much I want to die. I would not take any treatment that would prolong my life.

I understand. Some illnesses just go on and on and on with no end in sight. If you knew there was an end coming I think you can deal with it.

 

[JWL]

Suppose you would receive quality free treatment. Would you accept it?

If it's terminal, free treatment isn't going to help. Switzerland, and the luxury of being able to choose the time and have it all done for you with confidence in the outcome....

 

[blanketyblk]

At 19 i had stage 3 endometrial cancer. which i had to have a hysterectomy and then chemo for 6 months. if i didn't do these steps. i would of died in around 9-12 months. while at the time I did want to CBT but i didn't want to leave my parents (only child). but thinking back about it now. I most likely would be selfish and not taken the treatment.

 

[Morphinekiss]

I've been through one type of cancer and radiation already. Friday they found tumors on my liver and my first thought after hearing the news was this website. If they end up being bad, I'm refusing treatment.

 

[blanketyblk]

I've been through one type of cancer and radiation already. Friday they found tumors on my liver and my first thought after hearing the news was this website. If they end up being bad, I'm refusing treatment.

At least with cancer and decent doctors. you can make your death very painless. i remember been on a morphine drip i was awaiting treatment.ended up feeling nothing.. though chemo is fucking horrible.

 

[ScorpiusDragon]

I'll get painkillers but refuse all other forms of treatment.

 

[peacefully31425]

No. I already have too many problems as it is. Even if I were to survive through treatment, I'd be left off much worse than I am right.

If there is anything that I have learned these past couple years, it's that things can always get worse. I'd rather not stick around to see how bad it can get.

 

[wanttodie]

I probably would refuse treatment and hope I died soon

 

[Dawn0071111]

Nope

 

[Darkhaven]

I think about this a lot and right out of the box i think my impulse would be to refuse treatment as that is my will and dying by a disease would soften things up for the family rather than a suicide.
However i suspect that the fear of dealing with pain and physical limitations related to the disease would break my will to commit passive euthanasia.

 

[woxihuanni]

If I had cancer, definitely only pal. care. I am not kicking away a perfectly good chance to be off. And no fear of botching.

 

[Dutch]

Choosing for no treatment is also not good for your mental health, i have melanoma skin cancer, and it is possible to life 20 years with it or it can chance within 6 weeks from terminal to death, no body knows when it will spread. It made my life a bit worser to be honest, i choosed to not go for treatment, also because i believe that all kinds of illness is created to keep the world clean, but maybe i say that because my deathwish is strong enough. Really hope that it gonna spread so i can get euthenasy without to much questions. it's sad that euthenasy for mental is way to complex.
But im pretty sure that i have to solve this problem my self.

 

[Fadinglife]

no

 

[Tragoedia Vitae]

No, I probably wouldn't get treatment. If I'm ultimately going to die anyway, what would be the point? Might as well stock up on painkillers and go out in a drugged haze, which I would only be too fucking glad to do.

There's no sense in prolonging your suffering any longer than absolutely necessary.

 

[GoingSoonish]

I'd take pain relief medication and ctb when I felt the time was right. It would be great because people would be more understanding of my decision to leave.

 

[Wayfaerer]

At this point in my life, a terminal illness would only be a blessing. I could catch that proverbial bus in complete peace knowing that "what if I continue on" is no longer applicable.

 

[Partial-Elf]

I still think some or most mental health conditions can be or should be considered terminal, especially considering the lack of adequate care mental health patients receive in general.

I wish right to die legislation applied to those of us with mental health conditions who sincerely don't want to suffer and would prefer a peaceful death.

Couldn't agree more, this is perfectly worded.

 

[SheJumped]

No... I would see it as a blessing and welcome it.

 

[k75]

If it's terminal, then I wouldn't get further treatment. That's pointless. I would, however, go for palliative care, because I don't want to be in pain and suffer a miserable death.

 

[vonvonwantpeace]

I remember when my mother was dying of cancer when she took the medicine morphine she was very peaceful.

 

[teemo]

Not to offend anyone who is ill, but I would be so happy to know for certain my death was coming soon and I would not have the guilt of suicide. I would not seek treatment and instead would live out my final days joyfully.

i don't mean to burst your bubble but knowing you're going to die and refusing help against it is still suicide. It's just the lazy variety.