A family friend, one I haven't seen in many years, is right now in Paliative care, most likely on her death bed.
The reason: lung cancer.
Was she a smoker? No.
She's only 53 years old.
About 4 years ago, she went to her doctor for chest pains. He discounted it as nothing serious, gave her some cough medecine. The pain didn't go away. One of her friends recommended an Oncologist. A few months after her mis-diagnosis by one doctor, it was found to be cancer - a cancer that had spread throughout her body by now.
She had two operations to remove tumors - but now it was inoperable. She had to face four damn years of getting worse, being sick from drugs and radiation, just to lead to this. Death by millimeters. Sometimes, life really sucks.