Can't seem to stop reading the obituaries it seems

That my wife reads the stories and this morning in the local paper five women died of cancer, one a five year battle with breast cancer and the rest ovarian and brain cancers.  I try to stay positive, but that section is next to the comics (ironic) that my wife loves to read, but then she reads the obituaries.  

Edited by scared - Jan 29 2010 at 5:47pm

I read them and ALWAYS wonder what the circumstances were if they died from breast cancer.
Then I count my blessings that I am still alive.

Hello Heidi,

Connie,

I am not Italian and we approach the funeral party from different directions, but during my life I learned a lot of life lessons through funerals also. Furnishing food, visitation, funeral service, flowers, sending cards have always been an equation in my life. It is not for the deceased that this is done, it is for the ones left behind. I never truly appreciated it until I was on the receiving end. (death of father, mother, and other close friends and family)

I do read the obituary column each day (not with dread) but as a way of keeping myself informed. Some of them are people that I know who had cancer, but a lot of them don't have cancer.   

I did have cancer but if I was in an accident and got killed, it would not be the cancer that killed me. I hope people would support my family, etc. Come on guys "grow up". Cancer is not the only thing that kills.

Just my point of view,

Lillie

I've always enjoyed the obits.  I love the way people's lives are summed up in a paragraph, sometimes very creatively.  For a while after diagnosis I avoided them because it was too triggering, but I've long returned to my old pleasure, only this time with a special eye out for those who have died of BC.  My kids joke that I'm saying 'hi to my friends'.   Morbid, but....I like to know who I'll be joining if this is my week.  :)

-Denise

I love this topic. I had posted the very same thing years ago when we were first participating in FPP for the book I Am Not My Breast Cancer. That may have been 2003 or 2004. I too had taken to reading the obits, which I never really had before. I was glad to read others had taken to the same. It made me feel not quite so morbid. I like the variety of answers here. Mine is more some underseated morbid thing of those that have died from cancer. I am still reading obits 9 years later. Scared, this is a weird little quirk, that I usually keep to myself. Don't worry about your wife. I am really positive about almost all aspects of life and always have been.