Cary from Atlanta writes:

In October 2015 I lost a very dear friend of mine to cancer.  I had no idea that he had it, but it explained everything we went through 18 months before.  He was a strong minded, opinionated individual who didn’t care what anyone thought of him.  He truly lived his life the way he wanted to.  In 2013 we met at a discussion group and we had become very good friends.  It didn’t meet without a lot of push/pull.  We would get close, then pull back.  We both did it, but I couldn’t understand why.  It was because of cancer.  I learned he knew for a long time that he had the disease.  Cancer separated him from his child and his brothers.  Cancer caused him to push me away.

> In 2007, I watched my mother deteriorate daily from pancreatic cancer.  Day by day I watched her get worse and worse.  On March 23, 2007 at 435pm she took her last breath.  It was the absolute worst thing I’ve ever witnessed.  Cancer took her away.  Cancer made me feel alone. Cancer pit our family members against one another.

> Cancer causes pain in its victim, and probably even more pain in its victim’s loved ones.  I didn’t have cancer, but it still ravaged my life.  I can only imagine what it’s done to other people’s lives.  They claim there is no cure for this debilitating disease.  I hate it.  I hate what it has done to the people I love.  I hate what it’s done to my life.  How do we get this evil out of the world?  Cancer needs to be obliterated.