The 2 Year Old with Cancer
Every day, we hear about people getting cancer, living with it or dying from it, then we hear about the lucky ones who are fighting it, and paying to fight for it. Those who spend thousands and millions of pounds just to receive 1 single operation that saves but 1 person, but it doesn’t always work.
I wanted to write this because today I heard that a 2 year old girl, who had five hundred thousand pounds spent on a “pioneered operation” in the United States, has died after it failed to save her life from cancer. Now, I wondered to myself after hearing this, why is she so special? She had that much money given to her family from a television company, because they thought it could help, but why not give that money to the greater good of ALL cancer patients, rather than one single girl.
I may be being harsh, and disrespectful to her death, but why focus on her? She’s not that important compared to the MILLIONS of people dying from cancer every month, the THOUSANDS of people who die from it every week nor the HUNDREDS of people who are newly diagnosed… every… single… day. Why does she deserve such better care than the rest of those people, just because her family told the news of her story.
I’d label her mother as one thing, may the phrase be harsh and rude, but I think it true. Her mother is an attention whore. She wanted her baby to be so special and so recognised as the face of cancer that she’d write a dramatic story of her daughter’s life just to be noticed by the press. I know she really had cancer, but that’s not my point. There is no reason for that company to have paid so much attention to it. There is no reason that girl should have been famous, as it were, till today.
My point and my reason, is that cancer isn’t just affecting one person, it affects a lot more. Don’t focus your efforts to save one little girl, focus your efforts to removing it completely.
Thank you for reading.
