OT Death

[Jim K..]

adding a superfluous "a" to the end of every other word...

[ARW]

We have all experienced it but when the girl you got your first snog off passes away at 49 you know it's a bad weekend.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Awful. Was it cancer?

[ARW]

Yes.

[harry]

Sad. We all get to the point where we go to more funerals than weddings.

[Brian Gaff]

Yes well, we are always told that we are living longer, but a very good lady friend of mine died at 8 in a health spa. She had cancer for the third time and was fed up with the treatment. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Yes you are. However I don't think throwing all the money in the world at cancer can speed up any treatment, as it is in fact a malfunction of our own cells due to mistakes, trauma or other disease affecting dna. Brian

[newshound]

Just lost a second cousin at 54. She was taken ill at work (suspected heart attack) and was dead in three weeks from bone and liver secondaries. They missed a rare form of breast cancer at a screening six months ago.

[spuorgelgoog]

That reminds me that my local M&S is closing; I might pick up a dark suit.

Owain

[Chris Green]

What? Death? We all *will* experience it but I doubt if anyone here

*has* experienced it! :-)

[Steve Walker]

It depends how you define it. There are probably some that were "gone", but then resussed. My son was. He reports no experience of light, doorways or anything like that.

SteveW

[Nick Odell]

Very sorry to hear that, Adam. My sympathies.

Nick

[Vir Campestris]

Q: Doctor, I've got a lump in my breast A: You're pregnant, don't worry about it. Q: Doctor, I've still got a lump in my breast A: You're breast feeding, don't worry about it. Q: Doctor, I've still got a lump in my breast A: Ah. You've got six months.

She actually made it her son's 3rd birthday. Plus a litle. Birthday banners were still up at the funeral.

Andy

[Cursitor Doom]

I guess with educational standards being "harmonised" around the world over the last half century, all with the laudable (laughable more like) aim of equality, the standards of school, university and college leavers in the West has inevitably fallen. So why would we expect the medical profession to be immune from the effects of this? Doctors just ain't what they used to be.

[Roger Hayter]

Your basic premise is flawed! At least in science subjects and the theoretical basis of medicine several asian countries have totally outperformed us for years. They are being held *down* to our standards. The practical bits can be learned quickly by bright person.

[T i m]

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We lost my stepdaughter earlier in the year at 39. Primary cancer was in the bowel, secondaries in the liver and lungs but she finally died because her liver was 4x it's normal size. 1:3 chance the chemo would have killed her and if it didn't, what little time she had left would have been sh1te. ;-(

She was stoic to the end.

Cheers, T i m

[Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp]

Just a strong smell of sulphur :-)

AB

[The Natural Philosopher]

I had to laugh when my ex business partner who wanted to insure me against death, but not himself - he was fifteen years my junior - died of prostate cancer at the age of 49...

Well - laugh or cry, what do you expect?

Breast cancer, bowel cancer, prostate cancer. Dropping like flies.

What does it all mean? What was the point?

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[The Natural Philosopher]

I think they are vastly better BUT our expectations have risen faster than medical knowledge and treatments.

How was it put in 'Doctor in te House' ...'The Hospital, a place where you went when ill, and got better, or died, according to your luck'...

Read 'The Citadel'...a far better book than 'Dr Finlay's Casebook'.

The fact is ai is damned hard do diagnose everything. A vague ache might be simply dehydration or a sign of terminal cancer.

[harry]

A lot of people die of cancer because it's one of the few remaining diseases we don't have a guaranteed fix for.