If you have been involved with a Terminal cancer patient step on in...

I watched my dad fight off his blood cancer for over 20 years. At first he was just medication that made him a little tired, and not handle heat well. As time went by they had to take out his spleen that had grown to the size of a football, half his tongue followed later. In the last few years it was part of his ear, or recurring growths on his head. Then came the day he told me that he only had six months, maybe a year. He looked at me, and said he would not make it even six, and said he was sorry for leaving me to take care of everything. I was in the room when he told the doctor he was done with treatment, he went to hospice the following day, and passed the next. I'm not sure what is worse, going through it, or watching someone you love do it. Neither is a pleasant experience. I can't speak to what your friends wife did was right, but I do know that us knowing in the last couple of months let us sort things out, and say the things we needed to. One of my dads last wishes was that I finish my car in his shop. I work with many of his tools that I grew up with when we worked on my cars together. Somehow it is a little better knowing he wanted it that way. Next month will be two years of his passing, I hope your friend can find peace somehow.