Is This Defination Of Lung Cancer Death Correct ?

[yorkshirelass]

In the Daily Mail today, there was an article written by an an American vegan Doctor about the benefits of a plant based diet .

He wrote "The worst death I ever witnessed was that of a man dying of lung disease. He was wide-eyed, gasping for air, his hands clawing at the bed. His lungs were filling with fluid and he was drowning.
Very sadly, there was nothing I could do. Our gaze remained locked as he suffocated in front of me. It felt like watching someone being tortured to death."


As a 73 year old women with terminal lung cancer, COPD and heart disease, I am trying to eat well and live well for as long as I can. I have had 6 cycles of Chemotherapy but my tumours have not got any smaller so I don't know how much longer I have got left.
Statements like this Doctor gives, do not fill me with good thoughts. Is he correct in his observations about death from lung disease ?

[TheChair]

Definitely not a description of my wife's death. As most lung cancer sufferers die from the effects of secondary tumours (in my wife's case, on her brain), I think the description owes more to the writer's imagination, than to real life.