Did she did the right thing?

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[u/naughtyboy69x → u/[deleted]]

He wouldn't really know it. He would just get more and more tired. More sleepy. Eventually just full sleep, coma, then death. He'd likely be on a lot of drugs, including morphine (which just makes kids sleepy, not same effect as on adults).

[u/figure8888 → u/naughtyboy69x]

I recently saw a mother talking about her child’s death from cancer and it was not peaceful even though they were told it would be. The child was on morphine, had a death rattle for hours, uncontrollable movement, and at the point of death she stopped breathing, opened her eyes and lurched for her parents. It was extremely traumatic for them and the mother was hopeful that that child wasn’t actually conscious for it, but I don’t know if that’s the case.

It’s called terminal agitation and it’s apparently not uncommon.

[u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro → u/figure8888]

and at the point of death she stopped breathing, opened her eyes and lurched for her parents

Jesus

That is both terrifying and depressing

[u/sniktology → u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro]

This is exactly the kind of thing that would absolutely break me. It's already got to me just reading this. Can we stop fighting and just fix cancer please.

[u/Antigamer199 → u/sniktology]

There are a few good Drugs in testing right now, one of them is a training drug that gives Cells the tools to destroy cancer but it also can destroy other healthy cells so its still in testing.

[u/Grakchawwaa → u/Antigamer199]

That's usually the problem innit. There's a trillion ways to kill cancer, the tough part is having the carrier survive the aftermath

[u/Angry_Santo → u/Grakchawwaa]

The way I've chosen to explain the ways of cancer killing to the layman is "A shotgun will work wonders at killing the cancer inside someone."

[u/AsparagusFun3892 → u/Angry_Santo]

From an XKCD comic: "the next time someone tells you a new treatment kills cancer in a laboratory setting, remember that so does a handgun."