Charm -Thanks for posting the Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair article and the quotes:
�Whatever doesn�t kill me makes me stronger.�
�There but for the grace of god go I,�
�The grace of god has happily embraced me and skipped that unfortunate other man.�
Which i venture to say may lead to -
"Yay! God likes me better than the other guy!"

I�ve always wondered why we sometimes see groups of young men huddled together praying for a football win against the opposing team. Do they think God (or Buddha/Universe/Higher Power) likes them better? And what if the other team is doing the same thing?

Seriously, though -In another part of the article, Hitchins notes that -
�If I had been told about all this in advance, would I have opted for the treatment? There were several moments as I bucked and writhed and gasped and cursed when I seriously doubted it.�

My son expressed these very same sentiments to me, during his Tx, and this is why Eric�s signature quote from Niezche is so important to recovery. I had tried in vain to show my son how important it was for him to fight this disease and recover. It was not until I mentioned his 5 year old daughter and what it would mean to her to lose him that he rallied and continued the fight. He had his �Why?�. And I�m so glad he did. It matters not Who or What is the "Why" but that you have it!