Content Overview 
- Overview
- Preparations To Make In Case Of A Medical Emergency
- If You Are Likely To Be Hospitalized Or Enter An Assisted Living Facility Or A Nursing Home
- Choose To Live Each Day To The Best You Can. Stay Hopeful.
- It Is Your Choice Whether To Keep Fighting, How Hard, And For How Long
- If A New Treatment Plan Is Recommended
- How To Cope With Physical Issues
- How To Cope With Emotional Issues
- How To Deal With Financial Issues
- If You Have A Death Benefit On Your Credit Card
- What To Do About The Legal Issues
- What To Do If You Are Still Working
- How To Talk With Family And Friends
- Relations With Your Spouse Or Partner
- How To Speak With Your Doctor About Your Wishes
- How To Talk With And Provide For The Care Of Children
- How To Maintain Control Even If You Become Unconscious Or Unable To Speak For Yourself
- Consider Donating Organs Or Your Body
- An Option: Terminal Sedation
- What To Do If Your Doctor Abandons You
- What To Do If You Choose To End Life Early
Nearing End Of Life From Breast Cancer
What To Do If You Choose To End Life Early
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We do not recommend ending life early. However, we consider it to be our mandate to provide unbiased information about all aspects of living with breast cancer so you can make an informed choice.
If you are thinking of ending life early, consider whether it is because of depression. Depression frequently accompanies end of life. Depression can be treated. Ending life early may be a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- If you want to and can end life yourself: a how-to book is available. It is called Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry. It is available in most book stores and on line.
- Assisted Suicide is only legal in a few states in the United States and in several countries in Europe. For more information, see Assisted Suicide.
- It is worth noting that it is common in the US for the timing of deaths to be negotiated between a patient and/or his or her family, and a doctor. Speak privately, and openly, with your doctor.
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