Reply #33: couple of thoughts.

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I understand the qualms about the state forcing a child into chemo.

That said, doctors don't prescribe chemo for the sheer fuck-all of it. If they're that insistent, then the kid has some kind of a chance. Let him have it.

I understand the parents wanting to spare the child more pain. Believe me, I do.

That said, as the child of parents who sucked it the fuck up and put me through the chemotherapy that saved my life in 1980, it's time for this kid's folks to be bigger then their own fears and let the docs try to save their son's life.

I understand the "death with dignity" arguments.

That said, the kid is eleven. If he has a chance, then give him the fucking chance.