Posted on 05/19/2009 4:23:40 AM PDT by Alie James
We need to De-Politicize Cancer ... for Farah. Here's a recent article I wrote for Blog Critics:
"I watched Farrah’s Story, knowing full well it would make me sad, and it certainly did do that, but it also was so much more than just another sad celebrity story. It was Farrah’s gift to us - to her generation of Baby Boomer men and women. It was her way of giving us a Paul Harvey-esque “end of the story.” We are left with a wake-up call - the reality that if it can happen to Farrah, it can happen to any of us. It’s also given us an opportunity to give something back to Farrah, a chance to collectively hope she will find a miracle to regain her health ..."
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A friend of mine watched it and said it was wonderfully done. So when it was rerun, she called me, and I switched it on, never intending to watch the entire thing. But it was a great documentary, not what I thought it would be. My husband and I both thought it was very well done.
Yes, if it can happen to a celebrity, surely it can happen to a faceless nobody like me.
I came to that realization when Linda McCartney died. Her husband, with all the money in the world, couldn’t secure any treatment to save her life.
I have a whole new opinion of Ryan O’Neil after seeing him in interviews last week.
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They weren't married were they?
There were many interviews with him in the documentary, as well as footage of him at the hospitals, home, etc. He was honest and straightforward, as were the other “celelbrities” in the film...Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, who impressed me with their loyalty to Fawcett, etc.
Anybody who gets a chance to watch it should...even though I think it was on MSNBC (I really didn’t pay attention to the channel, my friend just called and said turn to channel such and such, LOL.)
oops invented a new word, LOL, meant celebrities, not celelbrities.
I watched it-—had not planned to. I was amazed at how “normal” she has remained....just a girl from Corpus Christi, TX, that “done good.”
When did we politicise cancer?
Ms. James says, “... our health care system is based on sickness, rather than wellness. It’s an outrage that many complimentary healthcare options are kept from us in America.”
No matter how much money and time is spent on wellness, people will still get sick and want as much quality health care as they can get. Farrah had the means to make her own choices and buy what she hoped was quality care, but at least in this country we don’t yet have government bureaucrats making the decisions for us.
I got this from a friend who watched the show. It seems Farrah ignored the first signs of rectal bleeding? Why is the health care system blamed for this. Is personal responsibility ever in the equation?
I stopped reading after that sentence, too.
Hate to be a contrarian, but I thought it was an unnecessary documentary and quite self serving on O’Neil and Stewart’s part. I’ve watched someone slowly die of cancer and they didn’t have the means to travel to Germany for alternative treatments, and they didn’t make questionable decisions on their treatment to save their hair or not have a colostomy bag.
I wish Farrah the miracle so many with cancer never recieved - as I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone - but this documentary provided me with no new perspective or better understanding. I do think it will help Alana Stewart and Ryan O’Neil financially after Farrah passes, and I think we will see them do the circuit - Oprah, Dr Phil - after she passes and perhaps write a book. Then there will be the movie “Farrah’s story” so we can start making our bets as to who will play who know. It’s very interesting that O’Neil is just now thinking of marrying Fawcett after 30 years.
To the left EVERYTHING is political.
I’ve also seen those close to me suffer with cancer. Some beat it, some didn’t (one family member died this week of cancer.)
However, for me, the documentary highlighted the triumph of the human spirit. At one point she said she always wondered how people with chronic illness go on. And now she was living that journey.
I’m sure you know from those you know who had cancer, it is a journey, a roller coaster ride, an emotional balancing act, and I think that aspect of the “cancer experience” was represented very well in the documentary.
True. To the Left EVERYTHING is political...what we wear, eat, where we shop, bags we use, car we drive, words we use, beauty pageants, where we live, where we travel...and the list goes on and on and on.
That what I thought,and by projection it’s all the fault of conservatism if anyone suffers in this world.
Cancer is a disease, there is nothing political about it and it strikes without mercy or reason.
Someone should be ashamed just for suggesting that it is political.
caught it the other night and was also impressed with O’Neil and his humility and caring for Farrah.
Prayers up for both of them and Farrah’s son.
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