Living Through

Jeric B. Bonostro
2013-23838
STS THY Group 7
Reaction Paper: Rhetorics of Cancer

Cancer has been one of worst diseases suffered by the human race. It is dangerous, destructive and it still does not have a cure. Although it has already been discovered for a long time, it still only partially understood. The disease lives within the person. The person lives with it for the rest of his or her life. The person struggles everyday to fight it, to get cured and to liver longer. But when one says a person is battling it or fighting it, it sounds like the person is fighting himself as well. In the podcast of Rhetorics of Cancer, the speaker, Andrew Graystone,  talks about the language used to describe what cancer is. He does not  use fighting or battling cancer, rather, he refers to to having the disease as "living with cancer." Since he has also lived with cancer, he believes that one should not have to fight it. In this way, one does not need to fight what is within. One could live his life better by thinking that this disease is within him and lives him even if it kills him. Life is tough, it is tougher with cancer and I agree with Graystone that one does not need to look at it as a war against one's self but should see as something that one lives through.