What do you recommend for extensively metastacised lung cancer in a 55 year old male?

Finding peace of mind will add to your quality of life, and I guess you're looking for quality rather than quantity of life. Talk to your family and put your affairs in order so that life will be easier for them when the time comes. Speak to your spiritual adviser if that's important to you.

Enjoy every moment you can.

Guess now it is time for supportive therapy and it is unlikely to have a cure. Pain relief is very important other than that allow the person to have good quality life allowing him to have comfortable life optimizing the conditions he has. He should be allowed to spend his rest of life with loved ones and keeping him happy without much suffering and sorrow...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.