I have a really hard time with the way people talk about cancer and putting in the form of some quantifiable fight. Because it requires fighting in its very nature. It requires insane levels of strength from the get go. But it also requires other things of people...
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It requires vulnerability, and asking for help. It requires loss and scars. And in the end it's not something you beat, it's something you heal. And yes, those who manage this have done something incredible. They deserve the world and towers of diamonds and everything...
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But those who die from cancer fought no less than anyone else. Thus to put it in terms of fight / beating is honestly an insult to their memory. But people keep doing it because the existential dread of the indiscriminate nature of cancer terrifies people, but that's what it is.
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