If you found out you had terminal cancer.....

[biggestmexi]

.....would you prolong your life? Or would you settle for the less than 6 months?

Id settle for the good 6 or less.

[StanUpshaw]

As a healthy young person, the sixth months is an easy choice.

I imagine it might not be that simple when I'm old and have kids and am actually faced with no longer existing.

[Misteriosa]

the yes no option doesnt work. is it yes to prolonging life or yes to the six months?

and i would go with the prolonging.

[Dougie Brootal]

id start cooking meth and partner up with a former student to sell it so i could pay some of my medical bills and leave some money for my wife and teenage son who suffers from cerebral palsy.

[StanUpshaw]

I'd swallow my pride and accept the generous handout from my rich-as-fuck former partner who fucked me over back in the day.

[disneyspy]

i'd just be happy i wasnt a ginger

[Jujubees2]

id start cooking meth and partner up with a former student to sell it so i could pay some of my medical bills and leave some money for my wife and teenage son who suffers from cerebral palsy.

Wow, that's a great idea. You should try to sell as a series to AMC!

[biggestmexi]

yes die quick, no prolong life.

[Dougie Brootal]

Wow, that's a great idea. You should try to sell as a series to AMC!

actually i pitched it to them maybe 5 years ago and they shot me down. said it would never get off the ground. bastards...

[brettmojo]

First... Two chicks at once man.

Then, who cares.

[boobieman]

I don't want to know when I am going to die. I saw it before and it is not pretty or fun. I want a plane to land on me, or lighting, anything quick..BAM...dead as a door nail. I think knowing you are going to die is just too much. Yes you can die anytime, anywhere but not a definite thing. Knowing that in 6 months I am a goner, and most likely the last month is sitting in a hospital, with your friends and family around, seeing my wife just be a wreck..no thanks..give me the quick, the unknown, and if possible the orgasmic filled dead.

OK back to drinking...

SSEYYAYAYAAA

[Suspect Chin]

I'll take the OC induced haze and ride out the 6 months in euphoria.

[keithy_19]

I don't want to know when I am going to die. I saw it before and it is not pretty or fun. I want a plane to land on me, or lighting, anything quick..BAM...dead as a door nail. I think knowing you are going to die is just too much. Yes you can die anytime, anywhere but not a definite thing. Knowing that in 6 months I am a goner, and most likely the last month is sitting in a hospital, with your friends and family around, seeing my wife just be a wreck..no thanks..give me the quick, the unknown, and if possible the orgasmic filled dead.


This. I remember when my grandfather was in a hospice and it was just awful. You'd go, and sit around watching him struggle to breathe and when he would stop everyone would gather around the bed, and then he would take a breath and everyone would sit back down.

It just seemed kind of wrong to me. I'm pretty much entirely positive he had no idea anyone was there.

Though, he died on him and his wife anniversary. It kind of seemed like he willed himself to that point.

Then again, that could just be something sentimnetal that didn't factor into anything at all.

[StanUpshaw]

Though, he died on him and his wife anniversary. It kind of seemed like he willed himself to that point.

Then again, that could just be something sentimnetal that didn't factor into anything at all.

I seem to remember some research done that showed a significant uptick in the death of elderly women (I think South American of some sort) after one particular holiday where they figure prominently. It seemed to indicate that their will kept them going until their role at the holiday was done, then they broke down. I'll try to find the paper.

[StanUpshaw]

Alright, here's the story I was thinking about:

People Can Delay Death For Important Occasions (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-04-11/news/9001020379_1_chinese-women-harvest-moon-festival-researchers)
...A study of death rates among elderly California Chinese women around the annual Harvest Moon Festival found that fewer women than normal died just before the holiday and deaths shot up briefly just after the festival`s conclusion.
...
The week before the festival, 33 elderly Chinese women died, about 35 percent fewer deaths than statistically predicted in that population for that week. In the week after the holiday, 70 older Chinese women in the study died, which was about 35 percent higher than expected.

However, another study was published in 2004 that disputes the hypothesis:

Asian-American Deaths Near the Harvest Moon Festival (full text) (http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/66/3/378)
Objective Reexamine the claim that elderly Chinese-American women are able to prolong their lives until after the celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival.
Method See if independent 1985-2000 data for Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-Americans replicate results that were reported using 1960-1984 data for Chinese-Americans.
Results The original 1960-1984 data do not support the death-postponement theory unless deaths that occur on the festival day are classified as having occurred after the festival. The new data do not support the theory, no matter how deaths on the festival day are classified.
Conclusions These data do not support the hypothesis that elderly Chinese-, Korean-, or Vietnamese-American women are able to prolong their lives until after the celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival.

And another study among cancer patients also shows no death-postponement

Holidays, Birthdays, and Postponement of Cancer Death (full text (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/292/24/3012))
Context Articles in the medical literature and lay press have supported a belief that individuals, including those dying of cancer, can temporarily postpone their death to survive a major holiday or other significant event, but results and effects have been variable.

Objective To determine whether, for the patient dying of cancer, a "death takes a holiday" effect showing a reduction in deaths in the week before a significant event was associated with Christmas, the US holiday of Thanksgiving, or the date of the individual’s birthday.

Design, Setting, and Subjects Analysis of death certificate data for all 1 269 474 persons dying in Ohio from 1989-2000, including 309 221 persons dying with cancer noted as the leading cause of death.

Main Outcome Measure We measured the total number of cancer deaths in the 2 weeks centered on the event of interest and the proportion of these deaths that occurred in the week before the event to determine whether this proportion was significantly different from 0.5 by using an exact binomial test.

Results The proportion of persons dying of cancer in the week before Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the individual’s birthday was not significantly different from the proportion dying in the week after the event (P = .52, .26, and .06, respectively). However, among black individuals there was an increase in cancer deaths in the week before Thanksgiving (P = .01), whereas women showed an increase in cancer deaths in the week before their birthday (P = .05). There was no statistically significant excess of deaths in the postevent week in any subgroup.

Conclusion We found no evidence, in contrast to previous studies, that cancer patients are able to postpone their deaths to survive significant religious, social, or personal events.

[Rockvillejoe]

They polled doctors on whether or not they would employ radical treatment. Overwhelmingly they said, "no!"

I would probably just go into a serious morphine haze and stay there.

[keithy_19]

They polled doctors on whether or not they would employ radical treatment. Overwhelmingly they said, "no!"

I would probably just go into a serious morphine haze and stay there.

This too.

[Dude!]

I seem to remember some research done that showed a significant uptick in the death of elderly women (I think South American of some sort) after one particular holiday where they figure prominently.

you're thinking of
Bolivian Slut Day

[torker]

6 mos. And Im takin all you fuckers wit me.

[OGC]

If you are saying that no matter what modern medicine did for me, I would live no longer than 6 months, but the medicine can make that time comfortable (but not necessarily productive/enjoyable) I would probably take the comfort and hope that it wasn't Fez who was in charge of the decision of what to do when I asked for help to end my suffering.

[torker]

6 mos. And Im takin all you fuckers wit me.

I changed my mind. I'm gonna live as longas I can and you'll can pay for it. :wink:

[Penelope]

6 months of highin from morphine and methodone.