Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer
Not only is our understanding of the cause of cancer vague in so many cases, but when we then ask people who have been diagnosed with this horror that weakens and enfeebles so many to fight, how can we not realize that the inconsistent results of treatments and the abject pain of metastases, conditions no patient is ever in control over, that we then have to view cancer’s endgame as one which shifts the blame from the disease to the person living through it.
My goddaughter’s lived experiences (within a too-short life that ended on a Chicago street corner after a cruel hit-and-run) with breast cancer were excruciating. I understand the desire to valorize the experience of anyone whose cancer enters remission, but my goddaughter didn’t win anything, especially when the corollary of such a victory would be that those whose lived experiences with cancer end in death signify personal failure.
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