In regard to Liz Walker’s Dec. 19 op-ed “Question 2 is deeply flawed”: Liz Walker never witnessed what my wife and I lived through. We lost a daughter who was 47 years old to pancreatic cancer.

At first they gave her a possibility of two to three years of quality life. After weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, the physician recommended a hospice house. My daughter asked how much time she had before her death, and the physician said it would be a few weeks. She went from about 135 pounds to about 60 pounds when she died. She was in severe pain, and told her mother she did not want to live anymore.