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by pjc50 2916 days ago
Your argument seems to be that surviving an otherwise incurable illness has .. downsides?
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I dont have a source for this, but I've been told a couple times that doctors who get cancer tend to decline chemotherapy/treatment because of what the treatments do to the body. It was described as aging your body to a frail old person (not matter what your initial age was), that is not reversible.

Or think about this on the extreme end: I think many people would choose a time to die peacefully rather than sit in a semi-vegetable state in a hospital bed for the rest of their life.

> "[...] I've been told a couple times that doctors who get cancer tend to decline chemotherapy/treatment [...] [Chemotherapy] was described as aging your body to a frail old person (not matter what your initial age was), that is not reversible"

Maybe in some cases, but as an overall statement it seems seriously misinformed. Not all cancers or their treatments are the same. My mom had breast cancer surgery followed by chemotherapy and it certainly didn't age her or make her body frail.

Plus with organ transplant you hardly "sit in a semi-vegetable state ". I am a transplant recipient, and have a near normal life.
It's not a definitive cure but a life long treatment. Of course it has downsides.