[cancer|personal] The things people say to me

[jaylake]

Loose paraphrases of some things people have said to me recently, but not that loose

Comments

[keikaimalu]

It's amazing how well-meaning people can end up saying the stupidest things.

And it's also amazing how people who may not mean that well dump their crap onto someone dealing with a terminal illness.

Human nature, I guess. We're a crazy species.

[autopope]

It's an acutely awkward social interaction to participate in, from either side -- especially if one or both participants is an atheist (and hence somewhat allergic to the usual fatuous nostrums about prayer and heaven and so on).

Frankly, I've got no idea what to say to you about it other than the obvious: it really sucks, it's way too early, and I'm going to miss you.

(And ... If by some insane happenstance it turns out that the monotheists were right? My advice is to punch that asshole of a deity right on the nose for subjecting you to this shit. That's my plan, for when it's my turn.)

[jaylake]

Frankly, I've got no idea what to say to you about it other than the obvious: it really sucks, it's way too early, and I'm going to miss you.

For me, that's about it on the nose. Plus you're being thoughtfully kind to me on the backchannel...

[rinolj]

You guys can go for the nose, Charlie. I'll be the recent decedent aiming something very sharp and damaging at entirely other godly parts.

(I've long said that theodicy is the low-hanging fruit of Western philosophy. Like most deceased equines, that one is, however, best not flogged in polite company, except maybe on rare occasions when you can do so with style.)

[samhenderson]

Progressively increasing, from #1 to #4 (WTF?), I apologize for my entire species.

[la_marquise_de_]

It makes me furious that you have cancer. If I could cut twenty years from my life and give them to you, I would, in a heartbeat. Because... Well, because you're *you*.
K xxx

[wild_irises]

Fuck them and the mice they rode in on.

[fledgist]

How do you do the latter? And won't the SPCA complain?

[wild_irises]

Figuratively, my dear fellow, figuratively.