My husband, who is 78, was diagnosed with osoephagus cancer last October.  After the first shock had subsided he decided to go ahead with treatment.   He  has had four sessions of chemotherapy, but feels so weak after the last one that he is saying he doesn't want anymore.  He spends his days sitting in an armchair with a heated rug, looking out of the window.  He won't watch daytime tv and doesn't read anything except for quick flip through daily paper.   His latest scan showed that the tumour has shrunk, and had been eating quite well, but now has started to reject most things and lives on soup and crackers with cheese.

i am at my wit's end how to give him an interest.  He watches tv in the evenings, but during the day hardly speaks.  He will only see family for about 10/15 minutes at a time, he says they tire him out.  He's obviously depressed, and has some anti-anxiety medication.  I feel he's given up completely and is just waiting to die, but if I try to discuss this with him he starts to cry which makes me feel terribly guilty.  
He's been fortunate that he has had no sickness, diahrrea, mouth ulcers etc, and no pain at all so far.

I'm the same age and although quite fit I do have problems of my own.  I would be most grateful for any advice on how to cope with this situation.

 I so want my husband to enjoy the time he will have left with me and the family.   A friend says that once the chemo has left his body he will feel so much better physically that he will want to go out and do things he hasn't been able to do for so long - is this true?    Also I'm really scared that once he stops chemo the cancer will grow again and he'll be back to square one.