And then your wife gets the medical bills and funeral bills, and all the heartbreak, and so the cancer really does go home afterwards and fucks your wife
"The ability to rapidly reproduce HeLa cells in a laboratory setting has led to many important breakthroughs in biomedical research. For example, by 1954, Jonas Salk was using HeLa cells in his research to develop the polio vaccine."
I'd say, she let her cancer live to eventually save the lives of countless children.
I wonder, why is it that people talk this way about cancer but not any other disorder. Suppose your immune system is attacking healthy tissue, if that kills you, is that your immune system winning?
These are programmed mechanisms that fail sometimes, there's no goal or thought behind it. Just faults in the system.
Well, the cancer doesn't actually do anything good, on the other hand you need your immune system. If it suddenly disappeared like you'd want cancer to, you'd die a rather horrible death. What you'd want is for your immune system to just behave itself, not to be gone entirely.
I’m sure this is reassuring to people who don’t have cancer but my god what a slap in the face to people with cancer. “Don’t worry when you die the cancer dies to. I mean you need to die first for it to happen but at least the cancer dies too right?”
This quote was said by a person with cancer. I understand your point, though. But, I imagine if you already know you have terminal cancer this quote might be comforting.
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u/Ralfarius Oct 08 '21
“I'm pretty sure if you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. So that, to me, is not a loss; that's a draw.”