...and it doesn't have to be.
If you haven't read this article, you should. I have more to say about it--when am I ever not willing to say more about something? But I don't really have time right now.
We all know warriors who have not survived. I have the same issues with the term "fighter" that I do with "survivor."
And pink.
1 comment:
Thanks for taking this stand. I have long been uncomfortable with these terms but I couldn't quite articulate why. When my dad decided he had had enough of fighting his pancreatic cancer and it was time to accept that death was coming, chemo or no, I think the hardest part for him was his fear that he was "letting us down", being a coward, or letting the cancer "win". But it wasn't a game or a battle, it was his life and then his death, something we will all have to do. We shouldn't have to face it with football metaphors if that is not our choice.
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