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Originally Posted by angeleyes
BTW, how painful, bad is it at the end if no treatment other than alterative (vitamins, diet, etc). If any of you have experience in that. (If you are comfortable talking about it). I've seen the end results of chemo and WOW, shit I could never do that either. I'm not religious but part of me thinks "if it's your time to go, it's your time". And quality of life vs. Quantity is a big one. Who the hell wants to gain an extra few years sicker than shit vs. What you get not going for treatment. (Especially when you really have nobody here other than a long lost best friend and a boyfriend in denial about everything, which is where she's at).
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If by "no treatment other than alternative" you also mean avoiding analgesics, please, talk her out of it. Without them, her last few weeks could consist solely of screaming and passing out from the pain.
Also, please, keep in mind that there are many different kinds of treatment. In case of things like metastatic bone cancer, which is not curable, there are radiopharmaceuticals of which the purpose is pain relief, not postponing the inevitable.
If she has an incurable type of cancer and doesn't want to draw out the process of dying at the cost of her quality of life, then have her tell that to her oncologist. I can assure you, he is rather likely to know more about cancer than all the people in this thread combined.