Illness Changes People
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There is nothing so liberating in life than facing that moment you could lose your life.
Illness changes people.
This I know. And this I know Rudy Giuliani knows.
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Because he's crazy enough to talk about it. And this week, even run radio ads about it.
I say crazy, because there was a time when candidates made damn sure they didn't talk about this stuff. Because it made them look weak, or frail, or heaven forbid, human.
No more.
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If it isn't Giuliani talking about prostate cancer, it's Fred Thompson discussing his own battle with lymphoma, or John McCain, his repeated battles with skin cancer.
Big issues in their lives. For a while, maybe even big threats to their lives.
But now, not to us. We have grown as a people not to judge someone by what ails them, but by what defines them.
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I say, all to the good.
And if, in Giuliani's case, it helps define the success of our medical system when everyone seems to be condemning it, I say, have at it.
Some insist there's still a stigma attached to illness.
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I like to think the illness in our society is assuming there's any stigma at all.
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