For my grandpa

[chocobofeather]

In memory of family and friends who have lost the battle with cancer; and in support of the ones who continue to conquer it! Re-post this in your LiveJournal if you know someone who has, had or has been affected by cancer. 93% won't even take the time to copy and paste this. Will you? 

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[pwaa]

How is copying & pasting this message going to help anyone with cancer? I suppose it could raise cancer awareness, if there were lots of people that had never heard of it who are savvy enough to use livejournal (I suspect the number of people who fit that description is approximately zero).

It seems to me the message does more harm than good: it's an annoying advertisement with no clear purpose, and is more likely to drive people away from supporting cancer research than anything else. It's not that I'm not taking the time to copy & paste it: I'm deliberately choosing not to, for the good of everyone involved.

[chocobofeather]

Normally I'm too far from agreeing with you, but this time when I spotted it on another LJ it struck me: my grandpa died from lungcancer, and I'm barely aware of *that*. Mostly because I only ever saw him once or twice a year and was as a result never close in any way with him. However, my mom lost her dad cancer, and my grandmother lost her husband.

So I guess was for me just as much a self reminder as anything else. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

[pwaa]

Hmm, I wonder if I'm unusual in my exposure to cancer then. It seems that everyone I know has a relative or friend who has either died from or come close to dying from cancer. My honorary grandmother died of lung cancer in 2001. I had a 40-year-old costar from community theater that died a few years ago (also from lung cancer). And my husband's family (on his mother's side) has a history of various kinds of cancer. I also have several acquaintances who have had cancerous brain tumors removed, and other acquaintances who have had breast cancer surgery (they do it laparoscopically these days!).

And of course, on the fictional side, Scully of X-Files fame had cancer for a whole season.

[chocobofeather]

I don't know if it's you or me or neither of us who have an unusual exposure to cancer. Apart from my grandpa, I know ythe mother of a friend of mine in high school, and the sister of a childhood friend of my sister got cancer, but they are both in remission.