Pat
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Dream as if you'll Live Forever;
Live as if you'll die today.
--James Dean
I'm as sad as anyone over her passing, but how can you say it would have
been any worse had she died of AIDS? I don't see how death from stomach
cancer is any nicer than death from AIDS.
ElmerCat
I'm delurking to reply, with flack vest on and snug. ;o)
I'm thinking that the death of a person is sad for those left behind no
matter *what* the cause of death was.
I'm curious as to why you felt the need to bring up AIDS or to possibly
have a hunch that her death was AIDS related in some way. I'm really not
being snitty here, I'm really curious. (I can't get snitty until I've
had more iced tea.)
Beth
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I was thinking exactly the same thing. It was a strange posting IMO.
Carole
I've thought a lot about the original post in this, and maybe the reason she
was thinking AIDS is Keisha. I know that Callie isn't Keisha, but she WAS
Malcolm's girlfriend/wife, and if the original poster isn't a long time viewer,
she may have confused Keisha with the actress who protrayed Callie.
Stretching, but I like to give the benefit of the doubt to people who don't
make a HABIT of mean-spirited posts.
Also, dying of AIDS is harder than dying of cancer while you're still alive.
Not in a physical sense, but emotionally. Maybe the original poster didn't
want to think of Michelle Thomas's memory being skewered by the spectre of
AIDS. I know that MY memory of Rock Hudson will forever been tarnished, NOT by
the fact that he died of AIDS, but that he FOOLED me. I know that was his job,
but dang -- he was one handsome hunk. That doesn't sound right, but hopefully
SOMEONE will understand and try to explain.
Anyway, there's two reasons why the poster MAY have posted as she did . . .
we'll never know, unless she posts and explains herself (which she may have
done, but AOL is off in a coma these days, AGAIN . . . .)
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> >I'm curious as to why you felt the need to bring up AIDS or to possibly
> >have a hunch that her death was AIDS related in some way. I'm really not
> >being snitty here, I'm really curious. (I can't get snitty until I've
> >had more iced tea.)
> >
> >Beth
>
> I was thinking exactly the same thing. It was a strange posting IMO.
>
> Carole
I thought it was announced that Michelle Thomas died of Stomach Cancer
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Diva
A glass may look half empty
But it's really half full
Back to the original poster's question...Michelle Thomas died of ovarian
cancer at the age of 28 on December 23, 1998.
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> Stretching, but I like to give the benefit of the doubt to people who don't
> make a HABIT of mean-spirited posts.
Stretching is good. It keeps us limber. :o)
> Also, dying of AIDS is harder than dying of cancer while you're still alive.
I'd have to disagree, only because, as a caregiver and a person who has
been with people during their death, I really think it's more an
individual thing, regardless of the cause of death. There are still some
folks out there that run the other way when they find out they're in the
same room as a person with cancer. But I will give you that *living*
with HIV/AIDS is more difficult still because of the stigma.