Do you have the courage to commit suicide in case if terminal disease?

[Brian37]

Giving up on what sense? If it has no cure you just need to accept it.

Giving up in the sense that I didn't wait to see if somebody pulled a cure out of the hat.

So what? When my mom had her last diagnosis she was told she had a 50/50 shot of trying to get rid of the re-infection. SHE chose not to do anything. She still had that choice and nobody had the right to take that away from her. She was 81 and had been through other surgeries over the years. When she had the initial surgery this last one, based on her prior recoveries, both of us thought she would bounce back and have enough mobility to go back to her assisted living apartment. But, as hard as she tried, and she was a tough lady, she lost just enough mobility that the staff said she would have to stay in long term care. 

But I knew she hated being stuck there and it was a mental drain on her. Even with being moved from the rehab hall, to the long term wing, we had hoped that she could be re-evaluated. But prior to the last diagnosis, I could see the frustration in her face having to constantly depend on others and the embarrassment of soiling herself and the discomfort of having to wait to be changed. She had points where she couldn't take her dentures out by herself and she got extremely frustrated when she couldn't do that. 

It was a total of 8 months from the time of the initial surgery to her last diagnosis weeks before her death. I spent an average of 5 -6 days a week with her in rehab when we thought she'd go home, about 8 to 10 hours a day, then even more 6 days a week when she was in long term care, even more time each day. I spent every day with her the last few weeks sometimes up to 16 hours. 

I can tell you from watching her be frustrated and uncomfortable even before the last diagnosis, I completely understood her final decision.