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papermachesatan: actually, it wasn't a reasonable alternative. All the evidence at the time pointed at MS, which meant that she was dying. There was no indication whatsoever that she might *not* have MS at all.
Y'see, my mother had had loads of tests in her life, none of which were conclusive. The problem is that you simply cannot tell which of the various muscle diseases one has. Either a certain medicine helps, in which case you have the associated disease, or it doesn't, in which case you have another. My mother had tried that medication in the past, and it had not helped her one bit then. There was no hope for a cure or solution, but we got one anyway.
That's the whole problem, isn't it? Where do you draw the line... When have you tried every reasonable alternative? Suppose you have terminal cancer, and you end your life, and the very next day someone finds *the* cure? You simply cannot predict such things.
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