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If I had only 3 months left to live…
Written by Sean on Monday, November 6, 2006
I was watching a show the other day, one of those so called "reality tv" shows. One of the guys had a rare cancer and had only a few months left to live. He decided to enjoy his last few months and his way of doing that was to quit his job as a cabinet maker, and go re-do kitchen cabinets for his family, friends and neighbours. It got me thinking. What would *I* do if I only have three months to live? What would I want out of these last months? I’m afraid I’d not be that unselfish.
One of three months.
I think the one thing I’d ask my doctors is for them to give me a spinal cord transection.
Could they possibly refuse my dying wish? Well, yes, of course they could. They even probably would actually refuse. They’d say they couldn’t do that because the quality of life of my last few months would be too "horrible" as a paraplegic, and particularly as a para dealing with cancer.
Me, I’m thinking perhaps I’d actually go into remission. It’s not unheard of for people who have a huge positive change in their life to see cancer or other life threatening conditions just go, disappear, fade away. But even if a remission didn’t happen, at least, at the very least, I’d know what it is like to be me, to be as I see myself.
But I don’t want to have to be dying to think that perhaps a doctor would see my plight with a more favourable eye.
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I would try not to waste my time and to do the things that really matter. I believe in heaven and don’t think we’ll need or want wheelchairs anymore. I am not afraid of dying. Things will be perfect afterward. I am only afraid of the painful dying process.
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1 On 7 November, 2006, Jen said:
I wouldn’t tell anyone. I would probably quit my job. I would travel to a few places that were special to me, make sure all was in order and then quietly wait. Not with a bang and I hope not with a whimper.