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Not having the money or ability to?

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What about if the treatment has a low success rate and is more likely to make the child's last months painful and miserable than to actually cure?

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Quote: from Bacon at 11:52 am on May 30, 2009

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Not having the money or ability to?

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What about if the treatment has a low success rate and is more likely to make the child's last months painful and miserable than to actually cure?

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Sounds like a better reason than, "our religion forbids it"

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Didn't the judge/government force him to do it against his will? That should be legal, its negligent for the mother to just let him die, when he can easily recover in 5 years.

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While I don't disagree that the mother is in the wrong here; please take care when you say things like "He could easily recover in five years.

Rest assured, there is nothing easy about defeating cancer, especially not over a several year span.

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I'd say that it ultimately depends on the situation. Obviously, in a situation like this boy was in, where treatment had a 90% chance of "curing" him, the treatment should absolutely be given. However, if the circumstances were different--if he'd been treated for this type of cancer many times and it kept returning and returning, or if the treatment had a much lower success rate, I think it would be up to the parents and up to the child.  

Really, there's no way to make a blanket universal statement of "yes, they all should" when it comes to cancer, because every case is so different.

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The parents? If the kid wants to fight his cancer, the parents should be allowed to say no, you're dying?

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Obviously not, hence the reason I said "up to the parents and up to the child."

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Quote: from Bacon at 11:52 am on May 30, 2009

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Not having the money or ability to?

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What about if the treatment has a low success rate and is more likely to make the child's last months painful and miserable than to actually cure?

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isn't that a call the doctors are more qualified to make than the parents?

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