I'm very sad.

[kyburg]

When I heard about the pancreatic cancer, it was just a big thunk inside. In my experience, you don't survive that one. I hear there is a percentage that do - but I've never met or even heard of one. Not ever. There are only a couple others that are as innately deadly.

People want to say he 'lost the battle.' That's an insult. You aren't given a chance to fight anything - this is something that steals your life, turns everything inside out and then takes your life without asking you so much as a mother-may-I. You *might* survive the treatment for it, you *might* end up cancer-free at some point...but this is hardly what I would call a fair fight, or even a battle of any kind.  Nobody asks you, after all.

I'm certain whatever could have been done, was - for a guy nobody I knew would say a harsh word about, Patrick Swayze.

Hey, Patrick - want to do me a favor?  Go over and give Freddie Mercury my regards?  vixy would like him to get his ass kicked (holy cow, go check mysticfig for details) and that sounds pretty good today.

And if you can get Ray Charles to stop kicking Michael Jackson's ass (maybe he's let John Lennon get a lick or two in by now), you should definitely have a word with him.

Give Bill Bixby a hug from me, and tell everyone I'll see them later.

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Patrick will do your bidding just as soon as Mom gets done with him. She was a fan for close to 30 years, you have to give her a chance, LOL.

They were both 57. Very unfortunate.

[foogod.livejournal.com]

Just because it's not a fair fight doesn't mean you shouldn't fight anyway. Frankly, what I find far more insulting is your insinuations that losing an unfair fight is something to be ashamed of.

What's insulting is to claim that something like this isn't a battle. It is a battle, a severely unfair battle, but still something you must fight, even though you will probably lose, and there's nothing at all insulting about that. His fighting and losing speaks far better of him than if he had just given up because "it's not a fair fight".

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I find the idea that there was a 'fight' to lose in the first place offensive.

This was never a fight - more like a mugging. And that's putting it nicely.

[lordindra.livejournal.com]

I'd say he won. Everything he was facing, and he still pushed his career and kept living the way he wanted to.

[elfwench.livejournal.com]

I know. His death makes me sad too. One of my favorite actors, and one who seemed to be one hell of a nice guy. Roadhouse, one of my favorite movies. (You thought I was going to say Dirty Dancing, didn't you? Well, that's up there, too.)

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

He seemed to live a lot longer with this than most pancreatic cancer patients do. It's one of the suckier cancers. I was impressed by his dignity and stick-to-it-ive-ness. But I adored Dirty Dancing, and I definitely feel his loss.

[sirena73]

I watched "To Wong Foo" tonight, and cried.