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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 TEXT Cancer patients should have the right to decide if they want to continue treatment. Cancer patients should have the right to decide if they want to continue treatment. Hazel was constantly being prescribed different medicine, as if she were an experiment. Hazel was constantly being prescribed different medicine, as if she was an experiment. Dr. Maria: I may switch you to Zoloft. Or Lexapro. And twice a day instead of once. Hazel: Why stop there?” Dr. Maria: Hmm?”Hazel: Really, just keep em coming. Im like the Keith Richards of cancer kids.(Green, 3). Hazel wanted to go to Amsterdam, but her doctors wouldnt let her go because it wasnt safe for her to take a plane in her condition. When Hazel went to the Anne Frank House, she kept walking up the stairs, even though she was out of breath. She wouldnt let her illness stop her from living a normal life. Augustus was at the gas station alone, and his G-tube was totally infected. He was in need of medical help. He called Hazel and begged her not to call the ambulance because he wanted to be independent and not feel like a helpless cancer patient Hazel knew at some point in her life she would experience an even greater pain than her treatments as a cancer patient, like the death of someone she loved I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten.(Green,104). Brittany Maynard, diagnosed with brain cancer, learned she only had six months left to live. Living in California at the time, she decided to move to Oregon, one of five states that has physician-assisted suicide. My quality of life, as I knew would be gone. (Maynard). Death with Dignity Act- allows terminally-ill Oregonians to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.(Death With Dignity). Ive had the medication for weeks. I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms.(Beever). Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.(Green,2).
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