[ SECRET POST #2423 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2423 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Amanda Palmer]


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03.
[Breaking Bad]


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04.
[Free]


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05.
[Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect)]


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06.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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07.
[My Chemical Romance]


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08.
[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]


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09.
[Twin Peaks, Audrey Horne and Agent Dale Cooper]


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[Johnny Weir, American figure skater]


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11.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Arrested Development]












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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[kallanda_lee]

It's not a crime to want them to get help.

However it is utterly disgusting to guilt-trip someone into chemotherapy,, up to the point where you have an intervention about it. When Walter first hears about his cancer, it's unsubtly made clear his chances are not too great. It's perfectly valid to not want to spent the last months or years of your life in a hospital bed feeling shitty. Hell, even if it would be free, that still doesn't mean one needs to accept chemo.

Most of us want to live, obviously, but when it's clear you're going to die it also becomes about quality of live, not mere prolongation. This wasn't about making Walter realize he wanted to live. This was about selfishly wanting him to have a horrible treatment that might now work because it made her feel better about the shitty situation they were in.

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on whether you interpret Walt as *wanting* the treatment but being concerned about costs and using the quality of life as an excuse ect. verse not wanting the treatment because of the quality of life issue and costs are his "excuse" ect.

[fauxkaren]

Yeah, and they didn't really discuss it, iirc. Walter got his diagnosis alone, decided what he wanted to do and that was that.

I can understand why Skyler would be concerned because she didn't know what Walter's reasons were for not wanting treatment.

[fingalsanteater]

I'm sorry, but your quality of life with an untreated illness like cancer is not that fucking great. So, she lets him die because he doesn't want to spend money on treatment that has a decent chance of working (I recall him having a good chance of going into remission) and he languishes away in his last months being sick anyway because he's dying of cancer? I don't blame her for not accepting that. He doesn't want the treatment because he doesn't want to destroy his family's finances, not because he doesn't care to live, not because he gives a shit about "quality of life."

He felt like a failure at life, but I think he wanted to live. He didn't have to do the chemo. I mean, when has anyone stopped Walt from from doing what he wants?

[(Anonymous)]

Your quality of life under cancer treatments isn't great, either-- and arguably, it'll prolong the not-great life you'll have. The point is, Walter was told that remission was a longshot and that the treatment would drain his finances. If I were told that, I might well make the decision not to undergo chemo. My family doesn't have to agree 100%, but they should at least respect that it's my call because it's my body.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and Skylar does.

Or did you miss the bit where he makes the speech and she *leaves it alone* and then he decides to have the treatment?

[(Anonymous)]

You don't get credit for "leaving it alone" after you've gone and laid down a heavy guilt tripping. O_o