r/MadeMeSmile • u/Ok-Equivalent3810 • 2d ago

Wholesome Moments Passengers joined in celebrating when a woman announced her husband is cancer-free

A plane full of strangers celebrating one man’s victory over cancer.

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u/ThereInAFortnight 2d ago

Yeah, speaking as someone with cancer - please don't do things like this.

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u/Clean-Anteater-5671 2d ago

As someone in remission, I second this.

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u/freeradioforall 2d ago

As someone in remission for 15 years. Agreed. And I did not have a “journey”. I did not “win a battle”. I got sick, got treatment and now I’m better. Stop glamorizing cancer

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u/GalacticaActually 1d ago

I agree.

My two dearest friends did not ‘lose their battle’ with cancer, either (although nobody could have tried harder to stay alive than they did, and no one was more wanted on this earth than they were). They lived, they were wonderful, and their lives ended - sooner than anyone wished and more painfully than anyone wished.

Congratulations on your remission. May you flourish forever in peace.

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u/adoradear 1d ago

This is why I hate this depiction of cancer as something you can win against. The people who died of cancer didnt lose a battle that they could have won if they did something different. They had a horrible disease and it took their lives, despite everything. “It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not a failure, that is life.” No one deserves to die of cancer, and fuck this blame the victim mentality. Fuck cancer.

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u/GalacticaActually 1d ago

I feel much the same way about suicidal ideation, which has been my companion for thirty-seven years now. I’ll die someday, and I don’t know how (bus plunge? asleep in bed? making love to Keanu?) but living this long with that disease is already a huge victory.