X-Message-Number: 6008
From: Randy Smith <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: One more reason to sign up for cryonics...
Date: 28 Mar 1996 09:44:58 GMT
Message-ID: <4jdn2q$>

 I was watching the local news here in Houston a few minutes ago. They 
did a very interesting segment on a former local newscaster/anchorperson; 
I say former because she had recently retired due to having developed 
widespread, and apparently terminal, cancer.
  
  Since she was no longer able to work, she was allowing her station to 
tell the story of her ongoing battle in chronological sequence, with 
interviews  of her and video footage of her as they received the results 
of each test.  One last news story, as it were.
  
 As the story unfolded, it turned out that after removal of the original 
cancer, they had hoped she was cured, but as later tests showed, the 
cancer had  spread to first her lungs and then into her brain.
When they showed the shots of her lungs, she explained that at this point 
it was probably terminal and she had a certain amount of time to live. 
Then the brain tumor appeared and it was a much more immediate threat.
 
  The most interesting part was the interviews with her as she came to 
face the reality of impending death. It was very hard on her. Her 
emotions showed plainly on her face. She turned to a religous faith--what 
else did she have? And I suspect it was a deathbed conversion. She was 
looking into the abyss, and I'm not sure any human can look into that 
abyss without some crutch. We may not be that strong.
 
  When my time comes to look into that abyss, I want my crutch to be a 
bit more solid than hers. I'm not saying that I'll go smiling, and I may 
reach for the that same crutch as well, but I'll have something else.
Something real.


 Randy Smith


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