Sorry, this is Facebook related.
A friend has shared one of those picture message things about how most of us have a thousand wishes- to be richer/ thinner etc, but cancer patients only have one wish, "to kick cancer's butt."
I'm sure that people who have cancer do want to recover, but is that really the only thing that everyone with cancer wants? Surely you can want to get better and want to (for example) be rich and famous at the same time?
Am I unreasonable in thinking that messages like that are just reducing people with cancer to their disease? It seems to be like it's saying people with cancer do not have fully formed personalities with myriad hopes and dreams like everyone else, they're just all about the cancer.
I've never had cancer or any life-threatening disease, so I realise I could be completely unreasonable about this, as I don't know how it feels.
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To think people with cancer have more than one wish
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TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 26/06/2014 13:24
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