The problem I have with his blog post is that he makes these value judgements and never says what demographic he is pertaining them to.
And the final sentence is just . . . wank.
It really is, ' . . . stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, potentially leaving us to die a much more horrible death.'
He really wrote that.
I find that stunning. My daughter died of pneumonia following allogenic stem cell treatment for her acute myeloid leukaemia in July, 2012. She was 9.
Due to lack of research, this is the only treatment that could be offered her to try to cure her, as her cancer was not curable with chemo alone.
Without further research and treatments, more and more children who have come after her with this disease are now dead.
Yet we can see how far research can come along helping those who have some form of cancers live very full, long lives compared to just 30 years ago.
How is this ever a waste? How old is too old for Dr Smith? If you're going to put a post with an opinion like that out there, what do you expect when you just leave it? He's like the MN equivalent of an OP who drops a bomb and then disappears.
Furthermore, there are quite a few forms of cancer that produce pain that simply cannot be abated. One of DD's friends from the unit had an aggressive lung relapse and despite the best care, she was, well, very uncomfortable at her end.
He makes a huge, sweeping value judgement with his final sentence based on what appears to be rather shocking naivete and then runs.
That's lazy at best, pretty twatty at worst.