HW 19

My parents' views on death are little to none, they have little to say about the topic. My dad believes that it's unpredictable and unavoidable, so we shouldn't dwell on the topic. For illness, I'd like to focus on my dad. When he was 14 years old, he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor, on his right leg. When I asked him about it, and how it was to be ill his response was, "It sucks". He said that chemotherapy was horrible as well, it has been 36 years since then, and it hasn't shown up at all, and I really hope it doesn't. The conversation didn't go much farther than that, and I didn't want to push. I just think my family and I don't think of illness or death, not because we're scared of it, but because, well you can't do anything about, everyone's going to die. And, chances are, with the amount of illnesses out there, you're bound to be sick at one point in your life. How can you worry about something when you're positive that it's going to happen?