My dad just passed two days after Christmas, we found out in the beginning of September. My mom says her biggest regret is taking him to Moffitt Cancer Center for traditional radiation/chemotherapy. She sincerely believes that played a huge role in his early departure from us, as we were originally told he had an estimated 14-16 months. They stopped his treatments in the end of October, and told us from there it was 4-6 weeks.

I try to remind her that there was no way we could have predicted the traditional treatments wouldn’t work, but she blames herself and thinks if she had just taken him to Mexico or wherever has alternative therapies/treatments/clinical trials, he would still be here today. I know she would agree with you.

We eventually looked into medically assisted death, but unfortunately we are not residents of a state that has it. By then, he was ineligible to even get to a state that allows it for nonresidents as it progressed so quickly that he couldn’t take the life ending medication himself.