The future of medicine in the U.S.A. and around the world is
hanging in the balance. Teddy Kennedy has served for over 45 years in the U.S.
Senate and has been diagnosed with an incurable brain cancer. All the tough
talk aside, he is likely to die within the next year or two. He may be a
valiant fighter but no one is a match for that kind of brain tumor with our
current technology - short of God's direct miraculous intervention. I've seen
that happen, but it would be so much better if cancer treatment wasn't always
such an ugly painful affair that left patients with only two choices:
- Take a toxic, expensive,
sickening futile treatment - Turn your face to the wall
and die like a coward who won't take #1
I don't know about you but I'd like to be able to explore lots of other
possibilities before I'd opt for #1 or #2. Even Teddy Kennedy with all of his
enormous resources is going to find it hard to get treatment that honors his
own healing choices. I'd wish for better for him.
