"You know, you really have two choices here. I mean, either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. That seems to be your only two choices. If I had given up everything that my life was about – first of all, I’d let cancer win before it needed to. You know, maybe eventually it will win. But I’d let it win before I needed to. And I’d just basically start dying. I don’t want to do that. I want to live. And I want to do the work that I want next year to look like last year and… and the year after that and the year after that. And the only way to do that is to say I’m going to keep on with my life," – Elizabeth Edwards.
She’s absolutely right, or maybe I’m biased because I have gone through something similar. I learned then (from Anatole Broyard) that one of the most important things you want to be able to say in this world is a very simple thing: "I was alive when I died."
The Dish 