Why, Where, How come???
By Loverbear
@Loverbear (4918)
United States
June 4, 2012 12:22pm CST
This discussion is dedicated to my boyfriend's son, David Lee. David passed away on Saturday at 9 p.m. after a battle with cancer. David was a sweet man with a wonderful sense of humor. I fell in love with the man the moment I met him. He was thrilled that Bill and I were together and was hoping that we would get married. He tried to get Bill's daughter to change her mind about me without success. The man was very giving and loving and didn't deserve to have this horrible disease.
We are spending 4.9 BILLION dollars a year on cancer research. They have been researching cancer and possible cures for it for a MINIMUM of 50 years. This puts a rough total of 245 billion on research. The researchers have gotten nowhere with a cure or finding the cause. I am sure that the totals don't cover the donations from individuals for the loss of their loved ones. Where is the money going? I realize that the research grants provide job security, but isn't it time for a cure and a reason for the disease? Isn't it time for accountability for researchers? I mean after all the research has gone on for so many years. I grew up hearing pleas for donations for cancer research. I am sure there was pleas before I was born...
We have developed vaccines for small pox, measles, tetanus, chicken pox, whooping cough, polio, and so much more. How many more people have to suffer before a cure is found? We have advanced to a computer age and are able to share knowledge and have so much better technology at our fingertips...yet we continue to allow our loved ones suffer from a horrible disease.
David Lee is going to be greatly missed...especially by me. I hope he is in God's hands right now and happy in his place in heaven.
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@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
4 Jun 12
How have you been??? I haven't seen you around the Lot and have been worried about you!!!! I hope everything is okay, I was about to start sending out search parties...
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
4 Jun 12
Yes Antiquelady, how are you, it has been a long time..
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
4 Jun 12
Thanks for your concerns , ladies. I'm hanging in there. Hope y'all are both doing fine. Haven't been on the Lot much but maybe i'll do better.
@China5Flower (225)
• Guangzhou, China
9 Jun 12
I am sorry to hear this story and you lose the loved one. In the past, there are not so many kinds of cancers appeared because the envirnment is OK and people's living condition is less poluted and there is not so much pressure from earning money. But now everthing is changed.I hope the 2012 prediction of human crisis will come true although I hope not. Human beings deserve all the sufferrings. If this situation want to be changed, every citizon in the world should learn to protect he earth's evironment and live healthy life. Yes it's true that therapy always lag behind the cancer which shouldn't be appeared. Proffessional groups should be organized to research the possiblely appeared cancers. That need much money and the government's support.
@China5Flower (225)
• Guangzhou, China
9 Jun 12
I am sorry to make a sentence wrong "I hope the 2012 prediction of human crisis will come although I hope not." It should be "I am wondering whether the 2012 prediction of human crisis will come true although I hope not." Just typed too fast. I am not a human vandals.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
4 Jun 12
Well loverbear, I might as well risk another reply that may make some upset, seems I have been doing that lately..
Before I begin though, I am terribly sorry for your loss and tell Bill I am praying for you both during this time of grief..
Now, I may not know for sure, this is just what I suspect. For one, our environment, the pollutants in the air we breathe is bad for our health. Next, the food we eat. Not only do American's not eat a well balanced diet, (this is not to say no more cakes and cookies, just balance it out with fruits and veggies), and also the fact that most food today is GMO, Genetically modified organism, so it isn't even real and I do believe can contribute to cancer. This is why I am trying to educate my husband, that if he insists on buying ears of corn, by it locally from someone we know who has grown it organically. Last, the water...Yep that liquid we are told to drinks lots of. Tap water, especially, has who knows what in it and then the city cleans it by adding chlorine??? Yuck...I remember one time the community I live had accidentally put too much chlorine in and the water was undrinkable for weeks, and the smell was awful when I took a shower, felt like I was washing in clorox. The best solution is the reverse osmosis, but it's expensive, so anytime you get get filtered water, the better.
Before I begin though, I am terribly sorry for your loss and tell Bill I am praying for you both during this time of grief..
Now, I may not know for sure, this is just what I suspect. For one, our environment, the pollutants in the air we breathe is bad for our health. Next, the food we eat. Not only do American's not eat a well balanced diet, (this is not to say no more cakes and cookies, just balance it out with fruits and veggies), and also the fact that most food today is GMO, Genetically modified organism, so it isn't even real and I do believe can contribute to cancer. This is why I am trying to educate my husband, that if he insists on buying ears of corn, by it locally from someone we know who has grown it organically. Last, the water...Yep that liquid we are told to drinks lots of. Tap water, especially, has who knows what in it and then the city cleans it by adding chlorine??? Yuck...I remember one time the community I live had accidentally put too much chlorine in and the water was undrinkable for weeks, and the smell was awful when I took a shower, felt like I was washing in clorox. The best solution is the reverse osmosis, but it's expensive, so anytime you get get filtered water, the better. 
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
4 Jun 12
Sorry, to hear about David. Its so sad and hard to loose someone so close to us. I think we all know someone or even multiple people who ahve had cancer. I know just a handful of close family members who have. But I agree why after so many years, and so much funding to tey not have a cure. I remember awhile back on a show how they have found a cure, but are not revealing it so they keep the money. I could see this as well, and they all just want money. If they find a cure, then they dont get funding and so many companies go out of business.
@ibo1019 (9)
• Philippines
5 Jun 12
thats a lot of money you've been spending, as in WOW!
_it might be so hard for david to fight the cancer,but what makes the fight worth fighting are the persons that show the support, for sure, even though his gone, he is happy because he knows you guys made all the means necessary to give him the cure,,,
