[quote=bearishgurl][quote=joec] . . . It’d be nice if government just comes out and start saying we have to ration health care like every other country. If you have cancer or some other terminal illness, well, that’s just too bad.

Of course, I’ll be upset when this happens to me, but health care costs are insane in this country and I’ll just live with it being my “time”….[/quote]

joec, I agree with this, as unpopular as it might sound. I believe Americans are very over-procedured and over-medicated when it comes to cancer. If you’re diagnosed at stage 4, there is no cure! It’s dicey for a Stage 3 cancer patient to ultimately survive it. After everything I’ve witnessed, if I should find myself with a stage 4 diagnosis, I will go out *sans treatment* quietly and gracefully. What’s the point? And why destroy the quality of my life in my final months and leave my heirs with all the bills and paperwork?[/quote]

my mom was diagnosed with stage 5 cancer 5 years ago.