the big C

[nextqueen]

i know a shopkeeper who has got cancer again the third time,it has returned after 5 years. i spoke to him today as he had chemo again before xmas. he said it hadnt gone well and he now has to inject himself everyday. i dread to think. he is such a lovely man, i just dont see justice in the world.its put me on a real downer today and i sobbed when i got home. if ther e is a god then why does this happen. my friend believed in karma but thats some good. when it gets to injecting yourself and the third time around can there really be any hope left. i am hoping and praying for this man, i often wonder just how cancer patients cope with the unknown or even the knowing, why dont the majority it seems just lie down and die? your thoughts please.

[Sqad]

Everybody has to die of something sometime.

I am an Atheist,so I dont need to explain why a God fearing person should die a death due to cancer.

This shopkeeper......from what you have described, no conclusions about his prognosis or treatment can be arrived at.

How do people deal with cancer? Depends on so many things, how old they are, what type of cancer it is, is it confined to the organ, has it spread locally, as it spread afar?

Terminal cancer is quite different....this means that the cancer is destroying the body and is advancing despite anti-cancer treatment. The end is nigh at this stage.
So often it is a serene ending and one wonders, at this stage, whether the body produces a substance like endomorphins to ease the final weeks, days or hours of your life.