How Doctors die

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2. Thank you for this post

I did read it. I didn't know that patients in hospice care often live longer than those who are actively treated. A very good friend died in April 2011 of ovarian cancer after having taken out two home equity loans to pay for chemo. (Yes, she had insurance!) She chose treatment till she ran out of money in March 2011 despite having been told by her oncologist in March 2010 that she would need hospice within six months. All that treatment and money spent bought her perhaps an additional six months of increasing suffering. If she could come back today I'd only have one question for her - Were those six "extra" months worth it?