Tuesday, March 27, 2007

We're All Going to Die

Thought for the day: Didn't Laura Bush have a cancerous skin lesion removed from her leg? Didn't Tony Snow go in to remove cancer in his abdomen, and they found more in his liver? Doesn't Dick Cheney have a history of heart attacks?

How long till we find our own president isn't even compos mentis?

Katie Couric, the CBS anchor, asked Elizabeth Edwards in a 60 Minutes interview Sunday night that she faces the possibility of death. "Aren't we all, though?" Edwards responded.

When I first heard her say that, I thought she was skirting the issue. But now I'm coming around to thinking she has a damn good point.

We are all going to die. Some of us are just doing it faster than others.

Elizabeth Edwards says she wants to keep campaigning with her husband for president because she doesn't want cancer to be her legacy. But maybe as she sparks a national discussion about death, illness and cancer, and, I hope, at some point, health care, being the new face of cancer as her legacy isn't necessarily a bad thing. Like I said before, she started it, and now it may be bigger than her.



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