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Because when you're the one with a serious cancer diagnosis in middle age and your friends are busy planning their kids' college admissions, reaping rewards in their careers, upgrading their homes, etc...

... it sucks entirely.

Not me. My friend. I am the lucky one for now, and she's not so lucky, and I wish she could experience the life I have instead of lurching from treatment to treatment.
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+1  just think about this OP! there are so many really really serious things that can go wrong. And they even happen to super rich or beautiful people too. I have a lot of clinicians in my family, and so they see the statistically unlucky ones. But at least it gives them perspective and they feel very grateful. [/quote]

Your not going to want to hear this, but: when privileged people get cancer, get divorced, lose jobs, etc., they have extensive support networks that make it far more likely they will get through it. Look at health outcomes for people based on socio-economic class, or something like the ACES test. People born to wealth, privilege, and stable families may of course experience bad luck and misfortune. But they will not suffer as much from it as people who are not.

And to take it further (and likely piss you off more), even if a very privileged person dies of cancer, their families will have more financial security, support, access to mental health resources, etc., than people from less privileged backgrounds. Even when the worst happens, it's not as bad. That's the fundamental unfairness.[/quote]

Nah, that's mostly nonsense.  You can get mad about imaginary people who have lucky happy lives.  I'll take my contentment.  And my knowledge that most Americans are not those elites that you're perseverating over.[/quote]

It’s not nonsense at all. It’s factual. You don’t like admitting it, but that’s immaterial. NP[/quote]

Also NP but actually you’re wrong. PP is right that those situations are rare and that “most Americans are not those elites.” Fixating on the hyper rare outcomes is stupid. [/quote]

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