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RE: Do we live healthy lives to avoid or postpone death?
Thank you for doing that work!
A stem cell transplant, which was absolutely horrifying, involved months of prep, a super dose of radiation to "kill" her immune system, and isolation for my friend Gina. It was followed by one year of somewhat improved health, but when the cancer "came back" (it was never gone of course) it came back with a vengeance, and her slide into her final days was stupefyingly terrible. They did try a refresher of stem cells, more prep, more radiation, more isolation and no improvement. I wonder if she would have lived longer and better had she done nothing at all.
That must have been awful to witness. It's crazy, isn't it, that the treatment for cancer is something which also causes cancer? Cancer, itself, takes years to develop, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if she'd have done better just doing nothing.
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It was awful, but she thought she was doing the right thing, engaging in a still experimental treatment. She made a friend undergoing the same treatment for the same cancer for whom it lasted longer. I wonder what happened to her? Maybe I will try to contact her - she was very distraught when Gina died.
Just a note: both of them went for regular mani-pedis and dyed their hair often. I suspect these as causes f blood cancers and probably other cancers too. Both of them continued even after their transplants. Just thinking out loud here.