{"id":240472,"date":"2021-02-24T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=240472"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T03:30:54","slug":"refused-assisted-suicide-brain-cancer-now-hes-running-triathlons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/refused-assisted-suicide-brain-cancer-now-hes-running-triathlons\/","title":{"rendered":"He refused assisted suicide after brain cancer. Now he’s running triathlons."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colin Clark, a 57-year-old who lives in Hawaii, has always been athletic. But after receiving a diagnosis of brain cancer, he considered assisted suicide, scared he would be a burden on his family. Instead, though, he chose to live \u2014 and now he’s made an incredible recovery.<\/p>\n

In November of 2019, Clark began noticing that his left hand was twitching, or that it would slip off the table. He thought it was just due to his busy schedule, which included competing in triathlons. But after one race, he began having seizures. After being referred to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and undergoing a biopsy, he was given a devastating diagnosis: stage 4 glioblastoma.<\/p>\n

“We had to tell Colin, his wife and their daughter, Nadja, the unfortunate news that yes, he did indeed have brain cancer, and surgical removal of the tumor was not an option,\u201d Dr. Jeremy Rudnick said in a Cedars-Sinai press release<\/a>. \u201cBut, as we do for all our patients, we assured Colin we would pull out all of our heavy artillery and focus on preserving his quality of life. In his case, our goal was getting him back in his running shoes, into the ocean to swim and onto his bicycle for long rides.\u201d<\/p>\n