I know this is true, because I personally knew someone who had serious cancer. My childhood friend's mother, who was the most precious person in the world to him, developed it when he was in middle school. I knew him in elementary school, we practically grew up together; I knew how much he loved her and how much he suffered during those years. He felt helpless, he couldn't do anything to help her. During our senior year of high school he died after a long and painful six-year battle. This destroyed him, not only did he lose his mother, she suffered so much and he suffered with her only to lose her in the end. I remember him telling me he didn't want her to suffer; she was tortured so much that she wanted to live like this. If she could have chosen euthanasia, she would have requested it, because it would have given her control over her life and perhaps not harmed her son so profoundly. He visited her every day only to see her unhappy and crying by her side, year after year the symptoms continued to get worse. She would have died by euthanasia anyway and that would have hurt him, but at least she would have been in a comfortable and sane state at the time of her death. He could have given his son a fort