Dear Judy,
My father has medullary thyroid cancer; two doctors so far have told him he should be operated on before starting chemo. He told me he wants neither the operation nor the chemo.
His words were: “Life has been good to me. Why prolong it? I’m going to die anyway.”
Judy, he’s 60. I don’t call that [...]
Dear Judy,
I hear you get a lot of emails from people who don’t think dying is the worst thing that can happen to a person. But I do. My father is in hospice care, and my mother and sister want his feeding tube removed. I think that’s about on a par with murder.
My father has thyroid [...]
Dear Judy,
My 78-year-old mother long ago did what I notice you always suggest to your online readers: she wrote an Advance Medical Directive, which gave detailed end-of-life instructions in the event she became terminally ill and incapacitated.
Well that is what she is now — incapacitated and dying. Thyroid cancer and congestive heart failure. You name it, she has [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009