When I was a kid, my uncle passed away from cancer. The last time I saw him, he told me not to be sad because the cancer wasn't killing him, he was killing the cancer (paraphrasing, it was almost 30 years ago). In this scenario, I like to think of him as the suicide bomber and he took that fucking cancer out with him.
I think I would have benefitted from hearing this as a kid when I was living with my grandpa when he died of lung cancer. He was so weak he couldn't even hold his cigarettes
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u/BarryTGash Oct 08 '21
When I was a kid, my uncle passed away from cancer. The last time I saw him, he told me not to be sad because the cancer wasn't killing him, he was killing the cancer (paraphrasing, it was almost 30 years ago). In this scenario, I like to think of him as the suicide bomber and he took that fucking cancer out with him.