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My friend's mom had pancreatic cancer and was getting treated with something experimental, I don't know all the details. She posted updates to facebook, with pictures of her mom, and it's been disturbing to see her get so skinny and fade away.
Anyway, she posted tonight that her mom had died. She was a great lady, someone that always took the neighborhood kids in off the streets, fed them, things like that. She had a successful business and was well off at the beginning of her battle. A month ago the money ran out from this experimental treatment, and so the treatment stopped. Now, she's gone, because she ran out of money. Maybe she would of died anyway, it's an aggressive form of cancer, but it just made me wonder, and it made me angry. We donate and are responsible as a society for discovering treatments and drugs, but then we're denied those treatments and drugs if we don't have money, even if we donated.
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