“How do you fight a disease that doesn’t play fair?” Twink asked her cancer support group after receiving the news. “Why do you fight when fighting is futile; when fighting won’t cure you: when losing is inevitable and the only reason to fight is just to ‘not go down without a fight’?” Whether we are cancer survivors, patients, or totally healthy individuals, we actually die a little every day, they told her. Each day lived is also another day never to be repeated. Now all we ask is to spend our remaining days with significance.
