I hope Patrick Swayze can beat the cancer. But pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest as it is silent and by the time you find out you have it, it has progressed so far. That is the cancer that just killed my aunt, she was diagnosed the first week of January and died on February 3rd. And, she didn't smoke or drink and was extremely healthy until the day she got sick.

I really hope the treatments work, he is way too young to die. Michael Landon died of the same cancer too.

I completely agree!

I don't understand how a TV station or radio station can make a joke out of someone dying, or fighting to stay alive. I wish the FCC could come down on them for it. There is nothing funny about losing a family member or loved one to an ugly disease, and this one is very painful. Most cancers are, but apparently it is one of the more painful because of the location of the pancreas. It presses on a lot of the internal organs and even on the spine.

Sorry, just my feelings.

Cancer is a very scary thing, along with all other crippling diseases and conditions... some people joke to try and lighten the mood, and others do it because they're sick with their own issues... everyone has their own way to show concern and as long as it's not hateful and disgusting, who are you to tell them they can't express it?

If I upset anyone over my 'not wanting to be old enough to have to wear diapers' comment, I apologize, but that's my true feelings.. I don't want to!

I'm sorry, Embers, my comment wasn't directed at you. Frankly, I agree with you about the diapers thing, I have had to take care of my elderly dad, and it is ugly. Death can be a blessing at times. I truly admire people who can work in nursing homes and deal with people and their needs in the end of their lives.

My comments were directed to/meant toward the people at the TV station "counting down the days to his death" and another person who made a callous remark. I am a little touchy these days, have a friend on a ventilator for over 5 weeks now, my aunt just died of pancreas cancer last month, lost my brother in June, so guess I am touchy about callous comments about someone's dying.

Sometimes it just feels like there is a lack of caring for other people and their feelings/pain, but you are right, I have no right to tell anyone how they can express themselves.

Again, I am sorry if I offended you or anyone else, just having a bad night. Take care.

my mum died of this and it took around 10 months to kill her, its slow painfull beyond belief and it killed me to watch her die like this...so a few wrinkles...i would rather have a face full of wrinkles and grow old than have any kind of illness that does this to you...

thst sucks. My grandma's in a nursing home herself after she broke her hip years ago. Doctors said it healed fine, but she never seemed to get the will to walk again, scared to death of falling again. She just lays there all the time and gets embarassed whenever she needs to be changed. To be helpless to that extent and fully coherent of all that's going on around you would be a horrible thing.

People suffer all the time and it all is crappy. Death is part of life, but sometimes it'd be much nicer if our bodies shut down a little faster so it wouldn't be so painful for some.

It makes me wonder about how much of a blessing the advancement of technology really is, because without all these machines, we might not hang on so painfully.

My thoughts are with those hurting... either from the conditions themselves or the ones being left behind.

You didn't offend me in the least. Yes, that one guy was very inappropriate. Hope it gets better for you and yours .

Agreed Debbie, truth is, it really scares me. Both my grandma's and my aunt died of it, and another aunt had ductal cancer (in the same area), heck, makes me feel like a sitting duck.

Cancer is just plain ugly, no matter what kind you have, I wish with all the money spent on finding a cure, they would come up with one.

Embers - I agree with you. My dad is in a nursing home, basically disabled, but gets around in a motorized wheelchair. His memory is going now. His sister had Alzheimer's so I don't know if he will end up with that or not. He has had 2 brain bleeds and burr holes in his head to drain the last one, but he is better off than a lot of the patients there. Sometimes technology really doesn't do us a favor at all, I don't think. I am sorry about your grandma.

hi hun sorry to hear of your loss and pain...know how you feel lost most of my family to cancer...but the best we can do is live for today ..i agree it can be horrible growing old if you end up losing your freedom and have to be taken care of, especially if your mind is still active

The Swayze? Sucks that he is going, shame people only pay attention to wanting to watch it. Then again what has our society become? Either way The Swayze was a good actor, and so I shall remember as that.

You know Deb my goes out to you cuz watching your mom suffer like that is horrible.

Whether it's Patrick or Heath or you or me, death is hard. Period. We all know when we are alive we have to go thru it but who wouldn't want a painless road.

And I agree with the OP and I think Silent Rob said it too. Our society has become numb to life and all it has to offer at any age.

I'm 57. I LOVE LOVE LOVE life. Now I don't look my age, & I hardly have any wrinkles but even if I did .. I'd rather have them than be gone from this great place yet.

I know where I'm going someday so I'm G2G and all .. but I LIKE it here on earth. And I love my family and friends. I feel for him and so many others that struggle with cancer. It's a horrible disease, the big "C" word

i agree totally