Girl dies of stupid parents

[Drich]

And you know she's in for a future of sickness and pain so bad life won't be worth living how?

Are you seriously questioning everyone who lived through this and what they have to say about it and calling them a liar?

The reson people go through it is because there is hope on the other side of getting back to normal. But if there is little to no hope many opt out.

You are so quick to wish ill on people that it's a wonder your head doesn't explode when you scare quote other people's moral views in the same paragraph.

wishing ill, on someone is only a problem if they worship life above all else. If a person worships God first then the illness while still not a good thing, ceases to be the end of the world.

He's old enough to make his own decisions. He's not a child. That's the difference.

This is what confuses me about you people. you all seem like semi intellegent people for the most part... Yet just because some hack artical says the only determining factor in this kids death was the kid's desision you just drink the grape flavored Flav-o-Aide all up and want more.

To me a semi intellegent person one checks the facts like for one the bogus number the artical gave, so as to judge the artical honest or not. Then I would look into the cancer care process to see if it were even possible for a kid or even their parent to just stop treatment if the kid had a real chance at life.

Yet you all have done none of this and simply assume everything the artical said is indeed true even though I punched a big hole in it.

Grown-ups have every right to do make that kind of decision for themselves. But if the doctor's say that if your kid gets the chemo she'll most likely pull through but she'll definitely die if she doesn't, you have to remember that you're the parent and you have to be more objective than a suffering, drugged child might be able to be.

Again sport a 75% (over a 5 year period) chance of recovery in a kid under 15 is low, almost 30% low. that low number means the chance of reoccourance especially with an acute lymphoma is very high. and as the kid gets older the recovery rate goes down lower, while the reoccourance rate gets higher.

Everyone has a responsibility to give their child their best chance. It would be different if the odds were 90% against her surviving with treatment, letting her go might be the best thing for her. But the odds are greatly in her favor, if she gets the treatment. Her parents should back that. If she still needs treatment when she's of age and still wants to stop getting it, she can refuse then.

again the recovery rate in the artical was very misleading

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