Highly Regarded English Physician Claims This Is The Best Disease To Die From

Richard Smith, a highly regarded English physician claims that not only is cancer the best way to die but that spending money on research for a cure should end. Just think of how much money the state run healthcare system could save if they could convince people to go along!

Richard Smith believes the opportunity to reflect on life before it ends is important and urges charities and the medical world to “stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer”.

In a blog published in The BMJ, the doctor wrote that while most people tell him they would prefer a sudden death, he thinks that is very hard on the families of the deceased.

“The long, slow death from dementia may be the most awful as you are slowly erased, but then again when death comes it may be just a light kiss,” he wrote.

“Death from organ failure – respiratory, cardiac, or kidney – will have you far too much in hospital and in the hands of doctors.

The 62-year-old, who is chairman of the board of directors of medical smartphone app Patients Know Best, continued: “But stay away from overambitious oncologists.

“And let’s stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, potentially leaving us to die a much more horrible death.”

His comments were criticised by the charity Cancer Research.

Professor Peter Johnson, Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician, said: “Of course we are all going to die, but cancer takes far too many people far too young.

Source:http://news.sky.com/