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kyburgI never like hearing someone receive a cancer diagnosis. No, it's not always a death sentence - but.
You've just seen someone hand over what might be what's left of their lives to treating it. They just lost their lives in a very real sense - while they are still living. And I can't stop how I feel about that - I hate it.
Nobody gets out of here alive. But those who die from cancer, probably have died a thousand times over before they actually get to leave - loss of job, loss of independence, loss of financial stability, loss of friends...the list is long, unremitting and just what it is.
You survive cancer - you don't beat it. You don't win. I've never understood that whole line of metaphors.
Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a particularly nasty variety of the beast.
There are plenty who will point and say really awful things. People in public office have to take that onboard, working in the public eye as they do.
Let's not go where we have to discuss how people ALSO do not get what they deserve. You gets what you get - you gotta make do with whatever it is.
However it goes down - let it be fast. To the good, and you get your life back. To the bad, you don't have to live with your life stolen from you and converted into something hellish indeed. And if you truly believe in an afterlife - what is there to ask about?
I think one of the most lasting angers I have over Cliff's death is the life he had to lead for three years before he finally was allowed to leave. We never worked so hard, and got so little for it. And awful is just a word that barely explains it.
You've just seen someone hand over what might be what's left of their lives to treating it. They just lost their lives in a very real sense - while they are still living. And I can't stop how I feel about that - I hate it.
Nobody gets out of here alive. But those who die from cancer, probably have died a thousand times over before they actually get to leave - loss of job, loss of independence, loss of financial stability, loss of friends...the list is long, unremitting and just what it is.
You survive cancer - you don't beat it. You don't win. I've never understood that whole line of metaphors.
Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a particularly nasty variety of the beast.
There are plenty who will point and say really awful things. People in public office have to take that onboard, working in the public eye as they do.
Let's not go where we have to discuss how people ALSO do not get what they deserve. You gets what you get - you gotta make do with whatever it is.
However it goes down - let it be fast. To the good, and you get your life back. To the bad, you don't have to live with your life stolen from you and converted into something hellish indeed. And if you truly believe in an afterlife - what is there to ask about?
I think one of the most lasting angers I have over Cliff's death is the life he had to lead for three years before he finally was allowed to leave. We never worked so hard, and got so little for it. And awful is just a word that barely explains it.
