The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

Some with terminal cancer have said psilocybin helped them confront death. But how that happens is still unclear

Any person with stage four colon cancer deals with anxiety, but for the first few years after his diagnosis in 2016, Thomas Hartle considered himself to be managing pretty well. In part, this was because his Pet scans suggested the cancer wasn't progressing rapidly.

That changed in 2019, when a colonoscopy found tumors on his large intestine that the scans had missed. A follow-up surgery found dozens more. His relative calm evaporated.