Dr Richard Smith says 'stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, it's the best way to die.'

A renowned doctor, Richard Smith, has claimed that the world should ‘stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer’ because it is the best way to die.

Dr Richard, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, says it may be a ‘romantic view’, but cancer gives people a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones, which is denied to many who die from other conditions, according to a Daily Mail report.

However, cancer specialists and charities disputed his incendiary comments. They said many cancer patients suffered terribly and would not agree that it was ‘the best way to die’.

Dr Richard (62) says: ‘Death from organ failure – respiratory, cardiac, or kidney – will have you far too much in hospital and in the hands of doctors.

‘So death from cancer is the best... You can say goodbye, reflect on your life, leave last messages, perhaps visit special places for a last time, listen to favourite pieces of music, read loved poems, and prepare, according to your beliefs, to meet your maker or enjoy eternal oblivion.