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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Oh, Hitchens. I absolutely despise a lot of his political op-eds, but he says them so eloquently. And his writings on his cancer leave me bawling. He'll be a loss to discourse, for sure. The man can write.
Thanks for sharing about your own medical history, Mike. I think it reminds us all that good health is not something we earn; it really is a gift, and one that those who have it often take for granted. My mother did all the things you were supposed to- ate well, exercised, had kids before she was 30, etc. and yet she was dead of breast cancer at 35. You just never know.
I think we seek to assign blame for a person's bad health on his or her lifestyle because it relieves us of the fear that at any time something could go wrong with our own bodies. And lets us avoid the fact that all of us, at some point, will need health care, and maybe it's a really, really dumb idea to leave it up to private industry to make a profit off of the certainty that we will all become sick at some point.
And I'm glad you spent your time drinking quality beer. Life is too short to drink swill.
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i wish i had found hitch much sooner than i did. i don't agree with him a good portion of the time, but i admire his style. it also leaves me shaking my head when people say it's his own fault that he was struck with cancer for failing to believe in the almighty. i wonder how they explain believers who also have a fight on their hands with that illness??