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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly I understand where you are coming from. My husband died recently of cancer, which has been heart breaking. When I read people's posts mentioning that they fought so hard so they overcame it by sheer personal will or that God saved them, I also cringe. My husband wanted to live as much as anyone but that f'ing disease killed him against his will. [/quote]

I agree with this vent more than the OPs.  [/quote]

Same. I hate the implication that the person who died from cancer didn't just fight enough. The whole language surrounding battling cancer is kind of f*****-up[/quote]

Six days after my twin sibling died of cancer in their early 40s after 4 horrible years living with it, my MIL made a point of telling me how amazing her 70-something acquaintance is for living with cancer for 6 years and that all her nurses at Dana Farber were amazed that her will to live kept her alive so long. I just stared at her, speechless, and then asked her if sh really thought people lived longer with cancer just because they really wanted to? Did she think my young sibling didn't want to live and just chose to die? This was a decade ago and I still feel like it was yesterday. So, OP and PP, I think I understand how you feel.[/quote]

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