<story><title>AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/b845e8ab-9cbc-482c-aa22-0b5c020be099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll never understand how in this day and age we still allow people to die suffering this way.&lt;p&gt;How come we are ok with euthanasia for pets but not people?</text></item><item><author>Scubabear68</author><text>Same with my dad in the 80s. His descent was horrible to witness, in my case at the age of 21. I’ll never know the truth, but I think his doctor took pity on him, dad died very shortly after a push of morphine.</text></item><item><author>latchkey</author><text>My mom died from lung cancer. It was going to happen, life long smoker.&lt;p&gt;Dying from LC is a terrible way to go. Your lungs fill with fluid and you slowly drown in your own fluid. The pain meds make you hallucinate terrible thoughts. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t wish it on anyone.&lt;p&gt;For the benefit of humanity, I hope this treatment works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&amp;gt; How come we are ok with euthanasia for pets but not people?&lt;p&gt;I think because:&lt;p&gt;- It mostly wasn&amp;#x27;t an issue we had to deal with until recently because we didn&amp;#x27;t have the medical techniques to preserve people&amp;#x27;s lives so long anyway.&lt;p&gt;- There are some concerns around people being forced into it that require any laws enabling it to be carefully designed.&lt;p&gt;- Religion providing it&amp;#x27;s usual function of inertia around societal customs slowing the change.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everyone I know under the age of 60 (and many older) support euthanasia for people who have dementia or some other unpleasant condition that affects their quality of life (self-determined, not forced on people), so I&amp;#x27;m quietly confident that it will be happen soon.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll be pretty mad if it&amp;#x27;s not available for me if&amp;#x2F;when I get to the point that I want it!</text></comment>
<story><title>AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/b845e8ab-9cbc-482c-aa22-0b5c020be099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll never understand how in this day and age we still allow people to die suffering this way.&lt;p&gt;How come we are ok with euthanasia for pets but not people?</text></item><item><author>Scubabear68</author><text>Same with my dad in the 80s. His descent was horrible to witness, in my case at the age of 21. I’ll never know the truth, but I think his doctor took pity on him, dad died very shortly after a push of morphine.</text></item><item><author>latchkey</author><text>My mom died from lung cancer. It was going to happen, life long smoker.&lt;p&gt;Dying from LC is a terrible way to go. Your lungs fill with fluid and you slowly drown in your own fluid. The pain meds make you hallucinate terrible thoughts. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t wish it on anyone.&lt;p&gt;For the benefit of humanity, I hope this treatment works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>Because pets are property. There is no concept of consent. Human consent to die vs. pathological suicidal ideation is a very tricky thing.</text></comment>