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Originally posted by Tala
To be very honest and blunt with you, it depends ont he context and the person making the comment.
There are only two people in my blood family (maternal side) who didn't die of cancer. My great grandmother had a stroke at the age of 93, and my mother isn't dead...yet. I'm hoping she gets lead poisoning or something nasty like that.
I have cancer and have had three different types in my 28 year life span. If I didn't keep a sense of humor, I'd go insane. I've made jokes about my dying from the disease, I've had friends make jokes about it, and I'm okay with it.
However, if the joke is in poor taste or if the person making the joke was a complete ass, then I would be offended.
Just like everything else in life, it's all about the way the comment is perceived. If you take it as a joke, it's a joke. If you don't, it isn't.
Digifan, I've said it before and I'll say it again: you rock. 
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Tala hon,
I do have respect for you.. humor can make life easier... I don't think I rock. I may be an egoist who cannot imagine another loss, and I also lost everyone to cancer except great grandma who had a stroke.
And I myself had a rhenal tumor years ago and refused surgery.. my dad died of rhenal cancer. I was sitting down every day for half an hour and imagined the enemy and was talking to it, fighhting it for a year or so and the process stopped. It is still there and can be seen but it became much smaller and I have no problems with it. I became a vegetarian, I was taking Herbalife products and killed the tumor. What a stubborn Taurine I am lol, please laugh with me. Imagination is a powerful tool.
