It isn't a cynical take. It is the experience of seeing several family members take the chemo, suffer, then die shortly thereafter. If it hits me, I intend to

It isn't a cynical take. It is the experience of seeing several family members take the chemo, suffer, then die shortly thereafter. If it hits me, I intend to do like Christopher Lasch did--take some pain-killers and go out with some bit of my dignity left intact. I read so many oncology papers in those days, and was thoroughly scandalized by them. Think of all the broad-spectrum bullshit there is in the software space, the financial space, the political space... but! doctors and researchers would never stoop so low?