From what Rush said in his health update yesterday, it was obvious, to me at least, that he knew he was “under a death sentence” since he was first diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. He decided to ‘stand up’ and medically fight it and NOT mentally give up on himself. As of yesterday, he is still going to fight and not withdraw and give up.
His most significant line to me was that he had not expected to live to October 1st, let alone until Oct 19th. I don’t expect Rush to give up and that they’ll end up “taking his cold dead hands from the Golden EIB Microphone” to paraphrase Charleton Heston.
I just lost a co-worker and friend to cancer. He had fought it and won the first time, but it came back 18 months ago, after 6 years of remission and he lost the fight on Saturday. At no time did he give up, he even managed to work from home and hospital via his computer several hours a day.
I hope he fights this to the end and wins!