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Originally Posted by Dion
It's only a hostage situation if you choose to see it that way. Anger, grudes and such are wasted emtions that only hurt the person who has it. It doesn't hurt the person and your personal feelings won't have much effect on his dying.
A person could do the unselfish thing and help this person pass on. He may not thank you or even care but that's not what this is about. It's about doing what's right and the peace you will feel when it's all over.
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so he has to pretend to be this guys friend until he dies?
who says that's the right thing to do and that he'll feel peace when it's over?
maybe the right thing to do is let the past be the past, wish the guy luck in his cancer battle and carry on with life. maybe the OP will feel at peace doing that.
the OP can forgive without playing out the charade of being friends to a dying man.
it's not fair to the OP, you guys wanting him to do something he likely doesn't have a need to do, and to tell him he'll feel guilty and not be at peace until he does.
the right thing to do is what the OP decides to do. not what any of us, me included, thinks he should do.