{"id":6066,"date":"2013-09-06T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:12","slug":"delaying-and-paying-for-the-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/09\/delaying-and-paying-for-the-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaying (and Paying for) the Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Newsroom\/PressAnnouncements\/ucm367442.htm\">announced today<\/a> that it approved a drug for treatment of late-stage pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 Most people who have pancreatic cancer live six months after the diagnosis.\u00a0 The newly-approved drug extends this time by 1.8 months.\u00a0 The drug costs $8000 a month.<\/p>\n<p>What is an additional 54 days of life worth, when you know you are delaying the inevitable by such a short time?\u00a0 Will the 54 days be quality days or feel-bad days?\u00a0 If you were in this position, would you ask for the drug, no matter what it costs or who is paying for it?<\/p>\n<p>It is unfair for me to pose such a question without venturing my own answer: I would decline to take the drug.\u00a0 If there is something I haven&#8217;t managed to do in the six-plus decades I&#8217;ve walked on this planet, then maybe it doesn&#8217;t deserve to be done during the final 1.8 shitty-feeling months of my life.\u00a0 Instead of spending money on some drug later, what about spending it on a rewarding experience now?<\/p>\n<p>Sha-la, la-la-la-la, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=spdSSI2rTKI\">live for today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA announced today that it approved a drug for treatment of late-stage pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 Most people who have pancreatic cancer live six months after the diagnosis.\u00a0 The newly-approved drug extends this time by 1.8 months.\u00a0 The drug costs $8000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/09\/delaying-and-paying-for-the-inevitable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13176,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/13176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}