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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by geysersam on Thursday December 12, 2024 @06:24PM (#42404459)
That must have been tough. May I ask what made them ill? The odds that they both got the same relatively rare disease by chance seems slim
Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by wpietri on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:39PM (#42404915)
Yeah, they were actually both left temporal lobe glioblastomas. Every time that comes up with a doctor they get a funny look and ask where they lived, obviously suspecting some environmental cause.

The short answer is people almost never know the cause of a glioblastoma. My parents only lived in the same place for like 6 years, and they moved around a fair bit. Nobody else in my family had one so far, so the next likely data points are me and my brother. Not a lot you can do anyhow, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯