Reply #37: Nothing can be done [View All]

Human nature is to say we can do something, in this situation you are fucked for 90 days.

My Dad got Pancreatic Cancer and died a few years ago. There were a few relatives that were absolutely nuts because surely something could be done. Nope, my Dad was going to die. There was no cure for that cancer in those late stages. Only thing that could be done was to make him comfortable. Even if they caught it earlier, that cancer would eventually kill him. He might have gotten an extra year, probably a miserable one with radiation and chemo hoping for a .5% chance of survival and a miracle.

However, a few relatives were angry at everyone from my mother (who encouraged my dad to embrace hospice) to the doctors because they didn't like the reality.