Cancer-fighting strategies are similar to actual military ones (Article)

I would like to offer a slight twist on this notion.



There is a very "heroic" narrative for fighting cancer. We talk about the battle, and beating the enemy, for example.

I don't think this is entirely healthy for everyone involved.

We also need to acknowledge the heroics of knowing when to draw the line, providing a dignified death, and for when we say goodbye after the battle is over. When you run the challenge the full 100-yards...that is also heroic.



These thoughts were raised in me as a result of listening to Friday's episode of the TED Radio Hour, titled "Rethinking Death," and specifically from the talk by Amanda Bennett "Do We Need a New Narrative for Death?" which can be found here:
www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=464431544&m=464829197&live=1

Post Edited (JackH) : 2/1/2016 11:23:58 AM (GMT-7)

Saw a similar strategy in the book "Anticancer", related to cutting of the blood supply to the tumor to the Battle of Stalingrad in WW2. It was totally hopeless for the Russians against their enemies, until they stopped trying to take them head on a smartened up and went behind them- these soldiers who were deep inside Russia- and managed to cut of their supply lines. Then comes the brutal winter, and it was all over for the other wise superior military force.