Your desire to plan things that you have incomplete information on is not going to be useful. By now given the date in your last post you likely have an answer from the biopsy. Let us know what that is.

Not even knowing that you have a cancer, its stage and ability to be successfully treated, talking about pain management and hospice is VERY pre mature. Wanting to get set up for dying when IF you have cancer it might be curable makes little sense. You will also find it problematic especially in your health care system for any doctor to put you into hospice care with a treatable disease. It doesn’t work that way, they won’t do it just because you might be more afraid of the treatments than the cancer itself. It breaks an ethical code, and the system won’t allow it or pay for it. Doctors are not allowed to prescribe pain meds and not treat. That is unethical. They can certainly do both legally and keep you as comfortable as possible through treatment. But prescribing pain meds to a patient that refuses treatment is not going to be something they will or can do legally without repercussions.

When you have a definite diagnosis, please come back, post again and let all of us here help you through the process of treatment. You don’t have to do this without support. It if all you wish is to quit a life that is livable, because the idea of treatment seems problematic to you, there nothing we can do to help you. Life is worth fighting for. Please do not spend your days planning your death. This post may seem harsh, but you are asking us things that there are no answers for.

Last edited by Brian Hill; 12-25-2021 09:47 AM.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.