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This is a subject near and dear to me...I have had two close family members die very painful deaths from cancer..The first being my grandmother she was 78 and had stomach cancer.after years of seeing doctors for stomach pain the blamed stress and stomach ulcers and her being slightly overweight...sure enough she started losing the weight very fast.then it seems our next visit she was just plain thin..worried we had a sit down with her doctors yet again wanting and demanding answers..it was well she lived a good life whats the need to start looking for something bad at this point in her life..I'm like WHAT!!! this is a lady that had 14 children raised the mostly alone thanks to my grandfather being a serious alcoholic and her religious beliefs didn't support divorce or birth control..she work hard for many years in the freezing cold water shelling lobsters for little pay to feed here kids..she even resorted to bootlegging alcohol to some of the fishing boats coming into the small fishing village late at night..my poor aunt thought my grandmother maybe a lady of the evening with all the men at late hours (she was not of course but to a 8 yr old who knows lol)..I was her first born grand daughter and she bestowed upon as much love as one can imagine loving a child...she worked and loved hard..her entire family cherished her so why was this monarch of our family dying before our eyes..finally the scans started and yes she has the final stages of stomach cancer and hasn't much time left..she isn't shocked or even sad she feels vindicated..so now lets manage her pain then again the Dr's fight us it will weaken her heart...her pain shorten her life you can't be serious??? let her say her goodbyes to all of us and go to a far better place. the nurses we so with us on upping the morphine but the Dr's let her lay there pain...finally this wonderful lady said in no uncertain terms to help her die they finally heard the words of this wonderful woman and 12 hrs later she slipped into a pain free sleep.. so my question is when there is no hope only pain and more pain and you have accepted your fate made your goodbyes can't you decide to die with dignity?? Cheryl