2013-48674
STS-THY
Reaction Paper: The Rhetoric of Cancer
Cancer.
What is the best way to describe this disease? Or the worst? What does it feel
like to have one? Or have a family with one?
“Fight
it!” That would be our instinct telling us to fight cancer until it’s gone or
at least to live longer. According to Andrew Graystone, the bodies of people with
cancer turn into war zones. He argues whether or not people chose to fight,
they are conscripted into something often described as a battle but against
cancer. So yea, Hey! What if that person doesn’t want to fight? What if this
disease was his wish or escape? Of course, no one could take that one important
thing that really belongs to him: his decision. All we could do is respect his
decision. This decision was not made out of the blue; there will always be a
reason, if not many, why a person would choose this and not that. Just like how
Andrew felt about his supposed-to-be enemy.
As
humans, we can’t keep our feelings in a box. It always flows or explodes, etc.
And so, we tend to feel sorry, to sympathize to those with cancer. Then, we become
selfish and think of ourselves; of what would it be to lose someone dear. While
we do that, we fool ourselves into thinking that we are doing what is best for
them. We don’t really know how they feel, and we might never actually know
until we are put in their position. We lose to ourselves, maybe worse than how
we think they lose to theirs.
Everyone
has their choice: to be with us, to have fun, to live, or to accept. And maybe,
just maybe, these choices are, for them, the only thing that’s left. They didn’t
have the choice to have the cancer and most of them hated it. Most of them went
through the heartbreak after being diagnosed with the disease that took
thousands of lives and counting. But
still, different people have different perspectives and so different languages employed
to approach this disease.
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