Prolong Life or Let Go?
By gemini_rose
@gemini_rose (16264)
February 4, 2009 8:07am CST
It is not often that things touch me deeply or sit on my mind but when they do it is hard to shake them. I do not know if everyone will know of a woman called Jade Goody, my guess is some will and some wont. Long story short is that she shot to fame through being gross and foul mouthed and thick on a reality show called Big Brother and then she made an embarrassment out of herself on celebrity big brother by being a bully towards another member it was really bad. Anyway although her image was tarnished she managed to put things as right as she could but then she found out she had cervical cancer and was actually told on live tv. I have followed her story as it touched me deeply and she has been having intense chemotherapy for the past few weeks, however she collapsed and it was feared the cancer had spread and in todays news it was said that it had. I will paste the page so that you can read it yourself but anyway Jade has two young boys and is only 27 and the only options open to her unless a miracle happens is to have medication and stuff to prolong her life.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2202357.ece?#EMC-Bltn
I have thought a lot about this, I have tried to put myself in her position and all I can think of is that if it was me I am not sure I would want my life prolonging. I mean if they said to me, we can make you comfortable and prolong your life for another few weeks I am not sure it is what I would want. I mean I dont want to die, but if I was having medication that was going to make me bad and out of it just for the sake of an extra few weeks I dont think I would. What I am trying to say is that I would rather stop medication and have four good weeks with my family than be really ill on medication and have eight if I could not enjoy what time I had left!! Because I know that a lot of the medication can just make the person really ill.
My question to you is what would you choose? would you just stop taking the medication and have a few good weeks to spend with your family or would you have any medication they gave you to prolong it for perhaps just a few extra weeks but be out of it all the time?
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5 responses
@dexterous21 (1180)
• Philippines
5 Feb 09
If I am in that situation I will stop medication and spend my remaining time with my love ones. I couldn't take seeing my love ones suffer because of me. And it is more difficult for them to let go if they did their best just to prolong my life. If there is a beginning there's also an end.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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5 Feb 09
I agree with you, it is not fair to burden others, that is why I would want to go instead of just dragging it out and suffering more.
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
4 Feb 09
Hi gemini_rose, I believe that is a difficult question to answer especially when one is feeling well.Although very few people want to die, it will come to all of us. I've often said that I wouldn't want to be put on life support if that was the only way I could be kept alive. I have a feeling that I would want the four good weeks to spend with family and friends, but it might be different if I was actually in the situation. Blessings.
@busyB4 (874)
• United States
4 Feb 09
I THINK I would feel like you, good quality is better than quantity sometimes! I might feel totally different if I had to face it but logically I don't think I would want to be a burden to the family when there is nothing more that can be done. I know prayers do an awful lot but if the answer is No to those, I think I would be preparing to go on. It just one of those things you would have to weigh out when it happened and not condemn someone else for their choice
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
4 Feb 09
I heard this Morning and it is very sad
I think I think I would carry on as there is always that little Chance of Survival and I would not want to miss out on it
From what I heard this Morning there is still a chance for her so maybe she wants to take that chance, I really hope that they can save her and that she is a Fighter, I feel for her and it makes me sad to
I will keep her in my thoughts and just hope she survives this, it is very sad
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
5 Feb 09
That's a really hard decision to make and it really depends on the person and their family in which way to go. I think I would want to give miracle a try. What I mean is, I'd take the treatments and hope for the best even if it did make me so ill, there's a chance that a miracle could happen and be healed. Who knows, maybe God wouldn't be ready for me yet and/or I haven't completed my mission, what ever it may be and I'd be spared so I'd have to say, I'd give life a chance.
@eileenevasco (91)
• Philippines
5 Feb 09
evrything happens for a reason.. God is the only one who can take the life of anyone coz his the one who gave to us.. No one has the right except God..
