noraleah:

(I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way.)

Pancreatic cancer is, for me, the most terrifying cancer. I have literally watched one person die of it and another person, I was very close to his son — he was my sophomore-year boyfriend — and while I was not there at his death, I was there a day or two after, I saw what it did to his too-young, much-too-young family, and it gives me chills to this day.

So I am relieved — terrible word choice, please forgive me — that even the richest, the most respected, are not immune. I sometimes — again, please forgive this uncharecteristic bit of conspiracy theory — fear that there are not two medical systems (we know there are two medical systems) but three. The last reserved for the richest, the most respected.

Steve Jobs inspired many of you. His (prescient, resigned, wise) words on death are comforting and, yes, inspiring to me as someone who has had a lifelong relationship with death. I hope his death inspires the person who will find the cure to cancer. 

It’s out there.

It has to be.

Right?

I lost my mother 27 months ago — at age 59 — just two months after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Whenever public figures are diagnosed with or die from it, I think of her even more than I normally do. I hope someone takes Steve Jobs’ words of inspiration and finds a cure for cancers, of which there are so many.

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Source: noraleah

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  1. notentirely said: when i picked up my husband this evening i said “when someone that rich dies of cancer, you know there isn’t a cure.” i totally get what you’re saying.
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    mother 27 months ago...age 59 — just two months after she
  4. heylaney said: I had the same thought. My best friend’s father died of pancreatic cancer a mere week ago (after being diagnosed a mere 6 months ago). This will bring attention to a terrifying, aggressive cancer that so badly needs a cure.
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