Mutt

that's the monster that cancer is - and it gets worse than that, unless you are with somebody in their final few days you have no idea what that disease does at its end. think of the biggest strongest athlete or body builder- it will eat away every last ounce of muscle good genes, steroids and a lifetime of hard work created. by the time cancer finishes its work on a person there is absolutely nothing left on your bones but skin, all fat and muscle are gone. a friend of a friend died recently after a long fight with cancer - i have no reason why he sent me an email with an incredibly detailed well written description of the friend's last couple of days alive. when there's no fat or muscle left you have just bones and nerve endings - this guy's last spoken words were screams of FUCK YOU at the ambulance people because he was in so much pain when they picked him up. the pain must have been something insane because for the previous two days he was literally comatose. he wanted to die at home.

nobody should have to go through that, once somebody is terminal with cancer and there's nothing left to be done every patient deserves the opportunity to be given a way out before things degenerate into a horror show. i think Washington state just passed such a law.

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