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I really hope hope you're 'joking' about this, even though this is certainly not a thread to be joking in.
But unfortunately there is no hope of treatment succeeding in this case. She has been told it is now terminal. I understand that you wouldn't want a loved one to stop fighting, but at the end of the day it is also very difficult to see a loved one enduring the pain and hideous side effects of chemeotherapy. If you have already accepted the end then, as many people have said i think i would prefer quality time with my family, rather than continuing treatment that makes life unbarable anyway. But like many people have said it is all about individual choice. All i can say is that i have the utmost respect for her maturity and her parents supportive attitude at this horrible time :thumb:
What this girl has chosen to do is brave. She has chosen to die with what little dignity she will have left to her. Personally I suspect that I would be a coward.
No, I thought it was quite funny too.
As for the girl, I think she should be commended for reaching a mature decision, but I think the adjective "brave" is a bit out-of-place in these cases. It's not like she has much of a choice.
I agree. Josie's decision to stop treatment raises very complex and emotionally-charged questions. It's understandable that people will have different responses to this decision, sometimes based on their life experiences. A sense of humour (or a challenging point of view) is generally welcome; but sometimes it's hard to tell what's meant to be ironic.
Anyway, it's definitely a thought-provoking debate.
I don't think it would be an easy decision to make, stop taking any treatment and just accept you're going to die. I think anyone who goes through cancer, and can accept that they're going to die, is brave.
I could walk up to a bouncer and kick him in the groin more easily than accept that my time on earth is very quickly coming to an end and there's nothing I can do about it.
I don't know, I think its important to not take things so seriously sometimes.
I'd agree with Miffy, to be honest, she isn't the only teenager that this happens to. My sister-in-law has a serious heart defect that by rights should have killed her days after her birth, and she recently had an operation in which she had a 25% chance of not waking up again. Not quite the same, I know, but my family wasn't in the papers and nor would I expect them to be.
I have a different idea of brave, I think. She has shown tremendous strength and dignity in just getting on with it, but bravery is about more than that.
Its a personnal choice, if she wants to stay at home and spend what time she has left happy then its her choice.