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 ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at blogcritics.org ...
I won’t be getting treatment, the state of ID has decided I am not eligible for medicaid.
Email is incoming for you.
THere has to be a way.
If there is I haven’t found it yet and have been looking since March 18th.
Prayers up for you.
Freeper prayers are strong indeed, so more coming your way.
Funny thing, I was just reading an article in the Washington Post (sorry, have to look at the opposition) and it was about people using twitter during the births of their children for a blow by blow update. Most of the comments are about how obnoxious this is, and sounded much like your repsonse, some things should just remain PRIVATE.
My Best to you.
My great uncle was buried with a fork in his hand, also with a can or Iron City beer - but I won’t hold that against him!
I am so very sorry to hear that you are ill. Your posts are a bright spot, and I always enjoy your commentary. In light of being ill, you seem to keep things in perspective, which would be difficult for me to do. I admire your strength.
Why does death have to be on tv to make it real to anyone?
Most people live not thinking about this and I don’t get the point of putting it on tv. There is something perverse about it no matter how it is cloaked.
Humanity has always had rituals and acts that acknowledged death. We have always had what is broadly known as Memento Mori - Latin for "Remember Your Death"; art and literature that glamorizes death and dying. There is nothing new under the sun.
Speaking of the sun, most every sundial, counting away time, has a Memento Mori. Tempus fugit is a popular one. It is there to remind us that time is fleeting.
I don’t get it and I guess I won’t ever get the public appetite for the most intimate part of people’s lives.
Humanity have always had graphic depictions of death. Always. The Greeks had their plays, the Middle Ages had Ars moriendi and books about perfect, holy deaths. We have days and ceremonies to commemorate death and dying (Halloween. harvest festivals, Dio de los Muertos, Decoration Day, Memorial Day, etc.). We have monuments to the fallen.
From the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries, postmortem photography was very popular. It was often artistic, but sometimes gruesomely graphic, the likes of which would probably not be accepted on TV or in society in general today. Some of it is tastefully done, but others are enough to give nightmares. At a time when photography was expensive, people paid to have it done, and would send the photographs to relatives and friends to announce the passing of the deceased.
What is on TV today is certainly more crass, with less forethought, though.
People seem to need to be reminded of death in a remote sort of way; nothing too personal.
I think that people want and need to make dying a statement or a gift because it is so agonizingly painful to lose a loved one. Anything that the mind can concoct to give it meaning, to assign a reason, can help those left behind. Death seems unfair; giving it meaning makes it a little more tolerable.
You are in my prayers.
THank you and you are right. I have seen victorian death pics.
Perhaps the television is what offends me. ANd perhaps the interest in this is partly fueled by people who have not had to watch death and dying.
I think at one time it may have been common to having a dying relative in the home,,now not so much.
But while I will die of this cancer if statistics and prognosis are attended to,,I am a while off if I am lucky.
That is what not to many people know,,cancer can be treated even when recurrent for a while. It doesn’t have to kill you in three months with a little luck.
THanks for the post.
well now the whole family is in the delivery room and movies are taken,,it just makes me think what the heck has happened to privacy.
She also refused a colostomy and opted for alternative treatments instead.
www.caringbridge.org/visit/lukepollok
What's your point?
I'm not trying to make any damn point, I'm just asking a civil question. What is the harm in that?
so tell me smart ass, were they married or not, were they married at one time or were they just good friends?
Is that question so hard to deal with without copping some kind of an attitude?
Chill out baby........
Don’t know if they were married or were just, as the kids today call it, shacking up.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/04/specter-hints-kemp-died-of-gop-agenda/
What I would really like is to encounter an actual human being not a human doing, the empty platitudes and well wishes mean nothing to me when I will simply become yet another cdc statistic. How easy it could have been to show even one ounce of compassion but instead they showed themelves to be hard hearted buraucrats used to everyone lying to them. We didn’t do anything but tell the truth and yet they even told us to find a doctor who would operate on HOPE and perjure ourselves when we signed the paperwork for surgery knowing full well there was very little chance the surgery would ever be approved after the fact. It’s socialized medicine at it’s finest, I experienced enough of it in Canada.
My question was simply an attempt to define the relationship between the two because of Ryan's unrelenting devotion and friendshp to Farrah.......if not married, which I don't believe they were, such a friendship we should all experience......
Or does it matter if these two were married? Does it? Seriously, does it?
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hmmm...freepmail.
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