A Lesson to Be Learned from Mr. and Mrs. Edwards And Cancer vs. Campaign

A doctor had told Mrs. Edwards that a bone scan has revealed her cancer to have returned in an incurable form -- and she has determinedly decided to keep pushing her husband to run for president in spite of her illness.

I very much respect her decision -- and don't understand what all the hullabaloo is about.

Consistently studies on illness show that when the ill person is married -- or has a project of some kind which requires their prescence on this planet -- they live longer -- because they are needed.

The bigger the need/project, the bigger the life booster.

In studies it's even been shown that if the ill person is given so much as a small plant to tend to, the ill person then has just that wee bit more zest to keep on living, which will then give them more of a riled up fighting chance against their illness -- and they will live longer than their plant-less couterparts.

For this reason, it's often recommended to give an ill person who lives alone not only a plant -- but a pet -- as part of their health infusing regime.

Considering all this -- I believe the pet project of a Presidential campaign is of major positive health value for Mrs. Edwards.

I don't see it as selfish on Mr. Edwards part either to keep his candidacy going. It's what Mrs. Edwards wants truly in her heart -- so she can focus on being a victor not a victim -- and he surely wants her to have a positive focus -- and to be excited about her life.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards also said they want to send out a positive message to the world at large about their philosophy on dealing with illness -- to create "a national discussion of the ability of patients to live with cancer and of how people need to live their lives under the shroud of mortality."

In Vikor Frankle' book MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING, Frankle advises on the importance of looking for meaning during times of great challenge -- to keep you moving forward. Indeed, those who survived Nazi concentration camps were not the ones most physically healthy from the start - but those who held this mentally healthy attitude -- to always seek meaning and purpose during times of great difficulty.

It seems like Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are doing just that -- and for this I respect them greatly.