Hypothetically, would it be wrong to refuse to help pay for a parent's treatment for lung cancer if they smoke?
and you have been telling them their whole life to quit?
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Thats up to you. Unless I hated them, I would still help in anyway I could. No one is perfect.. and everyone makes mistakes. Even though smoking puts you at risk, only about 1 in 7 smokers actually get lung cancer.
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You need to grow up, you have no idea how difficult it is to stop smoking. Many adults started when they were stupid, know it all kids like you who thought 30 was old. Now as adult they know smoking is bad for them, but they are addicted. Besides not all lung cancer is caused by smoking. Small cell lung cancer appears in mostly non-smokers. I lost my Dad to lung cancer when I was 18 & he was only 57. He had gone to the doctor & was told to quit, he did cold turkey because he wanted to live to see my sister & I grow up & live a long life with my Mom. He was diagnosed with cancer 3 years after he quit. Five years after the diagnosis, surgery removing 2/3's of his lung & radiation treatments, he died. I would pay any amount of money to have a few more years with my Dad. My Mom has been a widow since Jan of 1973. So take your callous attitude & shove it where the sun does not shine.
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Could you actually live with yourself if you refused to help your parent? I cannot imagine being this hard hearted. Smoking is an addiction. Refusing to help your parent is like refusing a drug addict rehab.
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If if were you, how would you feel if you were dying and no one tried to help you?
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It depends on 1) your ability to pay for enormously expensive treatment and how that would affect your ability to live 2) your relationship with your parents Everyone is flawed and makes errors in their life. You might not smoke, but you might have other habits that are not healthy. Hopefully you've still been loved despite your own bad habits. Love should transcend personal faults. My grandpa smoked for years; he's from a generation when it was common. Even after realizing the harmful effects it took him a while to quit. He went for more than 20 years without smoking, then started up again after my grandmother died. It comforted him somehow. I think he still does now and then. I don't know. He's never smoked in front of his family. We don't pester him about it now. Besides smoking, he's in outstanding shape for his age, and has a love for life. He's one of the loveliest people I've ever known, and if he had any form of cancer I would do everything in my power to help him. When I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma he flew all the way from London to LA just to cheer me up. He sends me care packages every single week. Whatever he needed, I would give him. Btw - after they are gone you might spend the rest of your life consumed with guilt for not doing what you could for your parents. I know that I would.
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I lost my dad to emphysema while I was pregnant. I would do anything for my daddy. He couldn't quit, no matter how hard he tried or how bad he wanted to or how bad he wanted to live to see his grandkids born and grow... I moved back from another country to have the opportunity to take care of him the few short months I had him. If you're hypothetically talking about your own situation, then you're hypothetically a terrible daughter. Now, I'm just sick with sadness reliving this..thanks a lot
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