Boy flees Mexico to avoid chemo due in part to religious beliefs.

[Tiberius]

As a mature (or at least of age) adult, I would do any and everything in my power to resist being forced into chemotherapy.

Have a nice funeral.

It might seem 'silly' to you

Well yes, that's because it is extremely silly.

and that I am crazy for not trying as hard as I can to elongate my petty life for as many seconds as possible, regardless of how much pain I experience.

Well yes, that's because you would be crazy.

But as an adult (which I admit being different that a kid, like this situation discussed) do I have the right to choose not to take chemo?

Of course you do, but it's rather like the decision to brake when a lorry swerves into your path. You have the right to choose not to, but it's an idiotic choice, and only the choice a person who has given up would take.

I would call it eugenics if I could be forced against my will to be radiated by a bunch of people that didn't see the whole picture, and so were unnaturally terrified of death.

You would call it eugenics, we would call it saving the life of a kid. Are you really so blind as to the difference between the loss of a child and the loss of yourself, an admitted "mature" adult. Maybe instead of thinking as a person who has actually had a life, think of someone who hasn't.

I say good on the kid, and I am proud of him and his supposed right not to go through that.

He is brainwashed. He thinks pseudo-scientific remedies with no greater power than that of placebo can cure you from cancer. Now I agree, the solution we currently have through medicine is not pretty; we have to pump the body with nasty chemicals. It is very dangerous, it is very painful, but you know why we do it? IT WORKS! If you are proud of him because he chooses certain death over even a remote chance of survival (and believe me, the chance with chemo is not "remote"), then you are a sick individual.

I think you guys should spend less time bitching at the world because it has different values that you.

Nice hypocritical statement you got there, but we allow you to bitch about us because we have different values than you, because that is how democracy works. That is how people discuss and debate things. You need to have an open forum of discussion. But sure, let's enforce some kind of tyrannical system!

From now on, all discussion must agree with the values of me, Tiberius

Of course, now I need to permanently ban people like bozo for being socialists, and Kyu for using Windows

...yeah, I'm not gonna do that.

We are still not sure who's values are more stupid, so don't wave yours around like they're the word of some logic-god.

Yes we do. Science has shown that chemo works, much in the same way that science has shown that evolution works, or anything else for that matter. To deny this is to deny science, which you are welcome to. But next time you are at a busy crossing, remember you have given up on science, and don't look both ways before crossing. Take a leap of faith.