There are plenty of doctors that rather die than treat their cancer. There was even a "recent" HN story about it. The motivation is that for a nasty one, the tr

There are plenty of doctors that rather die than treat their cancer. There was even a "recent" HN story about it. The motivation is that for a nasty one, the treatment is often worse than the disease, and they rather spend their wealth and to easy their pain and enjoy their last months of living rather than going through a very hard process that might not work, might leave them in an not that good state.