>If I had 6 months to live, and had no other options, I wouldn't care if a drug killed me in 10 days. Give me the option.

you're not being creative enough.

I agree with compassionate use cases, but be creative here : some drugs can create deaths much more miserable than the controlled burn of a 6 month descent into hospice care surrounded by family and loved ones.

6 months to live versus a possible supportive drug regiment with the side effects being constant pain until you slowly bleed out through your eyes after total sensory lock-in -- easy a choice to make? not for me.

bigPharma doesn't care about that. They care about the publicity of their drug killing someone faster than the cancer.

It's not just those two choices though. It could be "6 months in relative comfort" and "10 days begging each minute to die but you can't because you're borderline unconscious". Or anything in between. Just saying.

Medical guidelines are there for a reason and are often, as they say in the military, "written in blood".

I found this green block in my back yard. It killed a dog because he was mostly cancer I think. Anyways just sign over hundreds of thousands of dollars, thanks! This will probably ki—er, cure you. What have you got to lose?