"In research how to die, we will know how to live." Meaning?
Taken from the book, "After Breast Cancer, A common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment" by Hester Hill Schnipper.
is the rest of the quote:
"We have to think about how we want to live and we enjoy to consider how will will someday want to die. All of us must learn how to live so we will know how to die. Equally important, in research how to die, we will know how to live."
She is an oncologist who has had breast cancer and have lead many support groups and have have very close members of the group die. As she has witnessed their struggle contained by cancer's last stages she states that this is what really matters.
Answers:
I think you pretty much answered you ask , Yes My same
thoughts , if your life is unfulfilled , then dying would be pretty much
djectives have fears , I think the most prominent one is the fear of dying .
I have a friend about 7 years ago that had breast cancer , at first they
treated it as an infection , because the tumor was so life-size , later to
find out this tumor was an agressive cancer , She was the most
r a morning of treatment , She never gave up until the day they told her it have spread and nothing more could be done , she had a young son something like 11 then , but she got all of her affairs within order , and
with her family and few friends surrounding her she passed ..
She be 45 ...
Yes when we learn how to meet death we do , not adjectives are prepared , but somehow , there is a strength and guidence from the heavens that give us that ..
are able to take and give to one another is remarkable ..
These inhabitants are truly god's gift ..
"If we never lived , we don't know how to die " But we do , and no matter how your life is , when the time comes , its over ..
k you for such a wonderful and giving question
Life is a circle.
Unfortunately contained by our society "death" and even "aging" is taboo.
We strive to stay young and are constantly confronted thru advertising that "Youth" and "Health" is something we must strive for.
Nature has be the same thru all ages and eons. We are born, we grow up and some day we grow antiquated or get sick and then we die.
That is the circle of life.
Only when you adopt your age and the health condition you are in and the fact, that yes, you will eventually die, can you live a eloquent life.
e is beauty and peace in every stage of our energy. We do not have to pretend to be 20 something forever and we must accept that whatever the roulette controls of life dealt us is our destiny and there is not a soul to blame for it's outcome.
Each one of us assumes they will be the last one to stand because that is what we are taught. Life a "healthy" time and you will live forever. When the merciless roulette wheel of nature deals us a different fatal accident we are upset and try to find blame at anything and everybody. But eventually we will accept the inevitable. There is no one to blame. It is what it is.
You may chase dreams and foreign shores.... or find the inner peace and learn who you really are. Chase the butterflies... or find the meaning of your life. The choice is yours.
Either or - solitary you will take the answer to the other side.
hink that animals do not worry roughly speaking it because they don't comprehend it.
So we of all living creatures seem to have the dimensions to know that death is inevitable for us all - whether we have cancer or not - and so we fear it.
What have we as homo sapiens sapiens done about it over the centuries?
tian pharaohs built pyramids to cheat release.
The Christian religion gained many adherents because it promised the resurrection of the body and the duration everlasting.
That is a comforting thought.
~2 billion people on earth call themselves Christians, another 1.4 billion Muslims.
e are human coping mechanisms.
Over 2000 of my patients died with or from their cancer.
There were similarities, but each one handled approaching departure in his or her own way, and the loved ones left trailing handled the loss in their own ways - sometimes with religious beliefs and copious with an inner strength they didn't know they had. Support groups are good for camaraderie and strength in developing coping skills.
ome cases death became a greeting release from the process of dying. From all of the suffering I have seen surrounded by my years as a cancer and leukemia doctor, the conclusion I have reached for myself is that being deceased is easy, peaceful. It's dying that's hard. I've see many people die. They look much more peaceful within death than they did in the last vestiges of enthusiasm.
People - my patients - would ask me, "Am I terminal?"
I would answer that we all are terminal.
those who considered themselves Christians, I'd recommend Matthew 6:34 where Jesus tell people not to worry about tomorrow.
Focus on dealing beside each day.
With this reasoning it makes sense to engender the best of each day.
None of us KNOW with resolve how many days we will have
There are few relative certainty in life. One is that no human has ever gotten out of it alive. So, indeed, fulfill respectively day.
Added thoughts regarding people who hold had a cancer diagnosis.
I once saw a 96 year old personality with an advanced malignancy of the GI tract. I suggested that chemotherapy would likely do more harm than apposite - make her miserable and not add to her life. The family connections looked at me incredulously and said, "She's lived 96 years, she can't die now." It struck me that no matter how many years we are competent to survive, it will never be enough to suit some of us.
For thousands of years up until ~ 1700 AD, the life expectancy at birth hovered at 30 years. Of course that is to some extent because half of babies did not live to be five years old.
ave,
Thank you for the update on becky, polyps are very adjectives and thousands of people are walking around with them not even realizing they enjoy any. I am sure it will be ok...really, I'm not just saying that.
What is worse than death? Well I suppose death is our escape from agony, worry,illness, etc: So she is saying that release is better than long days in agonizing pain or unending verbs. That's the only way I can interpret it.
Love and hugs to you both.
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is the rest of the quote:
"We have to think about how we want to live and we enjoy to consider how will will someday want to die. All of us must learn how to live so we will know how to die. Equally important, in research how to die, we will know how to live."
She is an oncologist who has had breast cancer and have lead many support groups and have have very close members of the group die. As she has witnessed their struggle contained by cancer's last stages she states that this is what really matters.
Answers:
I think you pretty much answered you ask , Yes My same
thoughts , if your life is unfulfilled , then dying would be pretty much
djectives have fears , I think the most prominent one is the fear of dying .
I have a friend about 7 years ago that had breast cancer , at first they
treated it as an infection , because the tumor was so life-size , later to
find out this tumor was an agressive cancer , She was the most
r a morning of treatment , She never gave up until the day they told her it have spread and nothing more could be done , she had a young son something like 11 then , but she got all of her affairs within order , and
with her family and few friends surrounding her she passed ..
She be 45 ...
Yes when we learn how to meet death we do , not adjectives are prepared , but somehow , there is a strength and guidence from the heavens that give us that ..
are able to take and give to one another is remarkable ..
These inhabitants are truly god's gift ..
"If we never lived , we don't know how to die " But we do , and no matter how your life is , when the time comes , its over ..
k you for such a wonderful and giving question
Life is a circle.
Unfortunately contained by our society "death" and even "aging" is taboo.
We strive to stay young and are constantly confronted thru advertising that "Youth" and "Health" is something we must strive for.
Nature has be the same thru all ages and eons. We are born, we grow up and some day we grow antiquated or get sick and then we die.
That is the circle of life.
Only when you adopt your age and the health condition you are in and the fact, that yes, you will eventually die, can you live a eloquent life.
e is beauty and peace in every stage of our energy. We do not have to pretend to be 20 something forever and we must accept that whatever the roulette controls of life dealt us is our destiny and there is not a soul to blame for it's outcome.
Each one of us assumes they will be the last one to stand because that is what we are taught. Life a "healthy" time and you will live forever. When the merciless roulette wheel of nature deals us a different fatal accident we are upset and try to find blame at anything and everybody. But eventually we will accept the inevitable. There is no one to blame. It is what it is.
You may chase dreams and foreign shores.... or find the inner peace and learn who you really are. Chase the butterflies... or find the meaning of your life. The choice is yours.
Either or - solitary you will take the answer to the other side.
hink that animals do not worry roughly speaking it because they don't comprehend it.
So we of all living creatures seem to have the dimensions to know that death is inevitable for us all - whether we have cancer or not - and so we fear it.
What have we as homo sapiens sapiens done about it over the centuries?
tian pharaohs built pyramids to cheat release.
The Christian religion gained many adherents because it promised the resurrection of the body and the duration everlasting.
That is a comforting thought.
~2 billion people on earth call themselves Christians, another 1.4 billion Muslims.
e are human coping mechanisms.
Over 2000 of my patients died with or from their cancer.
There were similarities, but each one handled approaching departure in his or her own way, and the loved ones left trailing handled the loss in their own ways - sometimes with religious beliefs and copious with an inner strength they didn't know they had. Support groups are good for camaraderie and strength in developing coping skills.
ome cases death became a greeting release from the process of dying. From all of the suffering I have seen surrounded by my years as a cancer and leukemia doctor, the conclusion I have reached for myself is that being deceased is easy, peaceful. It's dying that's hard. I've see many people die. They look much more peaceful within death than they did in the last vestiges of enthusiasm.
People - my patients - would ask me, "Am I terminal?"
I would answer that we all are terminal.
those who considered themselves Christians, I'd recommend Matthew 6:34 where Jesus tell people not to worry about tomorrow.
Focus on dealing beside each day.
With this reasoning it makes sense to engender the best of each day.
None of us KNOW with resolve how many days we will have
There are few relative certainty in life. One is that no human has ever gotten out of it alive. So, indeed, fulfill respectively day.
Added thoughts regarding people who hold had a cancer diagnosis.
I once saw a 96 year old personality with an advanced malignancy of the GI tract. I suggested that chemotherapy would likely do more harm than apposite - make her miserable and not add to her life. The family connections looked at me incredulously and said, "She's lived 96 years, she can't die now." It struck me that no matter how many years we are competent to survive, it will never be enough to suit some of us.
For thousands of years up until ~ 1700 AD, the life expectancy at birth hovered at 30 years. Of course that is to some extent because half of babies did not live to be five years old.
ave,
Thank you for the update on becky, polyps are very adjectives and thousands of people are walking around with them not even realizing they enjoy any. I am sure it will be ok...really, I'm not just saying that.
What is worse than death? Well I suppose death is our escape from agony, worry,illness, etc: So she is saying that release is better than long days in agonizing pain or unending verbs. That's the only way I can interpret it.
Love and hugs to you both.
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