my sympathy to ms hunter, a woman i only found out existed just now. no one should get cancer at 27, i hope she beats it.

however, that said:

eventually someone's going to cure cancer, and then we're going to be fucked. cancer at 27 sucks, but cancer is one of the few diseases keeping the western world's population growth under control. it doesn't seem fair that an ethiopian kid can die of a cold just because his country's poor, yet an old western woman can be pumped full of drugs to keep her alive 35 years after she ceased to serve any purpose other than being a drain on the economy. cancer, obesity and aids are all we have left, and with stem cells, biotechnology and other medical improvements soon even they will be useless. bird flu will merely take out south east asia so that's no help; nature will have to dream up some new disease, perhaps rapidly communicable spontaneous combustion, and then people will be rueing the fact that no one dies of cancer anymore.

essentially, i don't want to be around in 20 years time when only white western countries are left and i'm taxed 80% of my income to keep irrelevant old people alive who were too stupid to understand the simple concept of saving for the future.