Prolonging the inevidable
If you were told that you had a terminal illness and if you could have surgery, it might prolong your life another year at the most, would you opt for the knife or refuse treatment? Another year could give you more time with your family and get prepared, or would you feel it would only prolong your suffering?
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If you had a choice to be considered sensitive or insensitive, which would you pick? -lea
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Refuse treatment....sooner or later will be dead so why bother? Given another year, so what? Makes life even more miserable, Isn't it?
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Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy. 
I think you have to be this person to know the answer. What you now believe may not be the same if you are that terminal person.
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Thank you conservative Bush/McCain Republicans for global warming, the use of food (corn ethanol) in the gas tanks of SUV's causing famine all over the world. resulting in slow death for all life on earth. Thank you for urban sprawl, the non-stop building of new homes that no one wants, and the destruction of all farmland to build the new homes with illegal labor from south of the border that you won't protect. Thank you for trying to destroy Social Security and medical care for all Americans, great bunch of guys, oh did I mention the non stop wars to support conservative republican arms and ammunition manufactures?
I don't know what I would choose, because I already know that I would die soon and don't want to suffer any longer. But on the other hand there is the family ... that's hard to say.
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"Chaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man." (Henry Brooks Adams)
I would have the surgery, even if it jus gave me a little while longer to be with my kids then i would try it
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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
I'd prefer the surgery, if there's life there's hope, it might appear a new drug or scientists might discover sth new to prolong your life!!
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"Jane Austen
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion"(Samuel Johnson)
I'd prefer the surgery, if there's life there's hope, it might appear a new drug or scientists might discover sth new to prolong your life!!
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"Jane Austen
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion"(Samuel Johnson)
That would depend on what sort of illness it was.........if the surgery gave me more time with an able body, then I think I'd opt for the knife.
It would depend on how I would feel in the mean time.
I'd refuse treatment. It would just give you more time to suffer, at least in your mind, knowing that you will die soon.
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Carni goes Caribbean! 
I would choose the surgery. One more year is better than nothing.
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It is said human beings are complex. I say it's a complex challenge to be a human.