I find it very bizarre that the 90-year-old Carter would want to undergo radiation for his brain cancer. What can be the upside here? Dragging it out for 6 or 7 painful months longer? I’d think the more logical thing would be to concentrate on preparing for death. Especially since he seems to have claimed to be a religious person.
I obviously wasn’t around when he was president but I watched a documentary about him, and it was obvious from the footage that he was a mighty strange fellow. And apparently that hasn’t changed.
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Perhaps he feels he still has work to do, and the cancer can be beat into remission with the proper therapy.
True he’s 90, but lots of people make it to 100.
He’s done so much good in the world with his charities and projects. I hope he continues.
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Work? At 90?
I’ll never get that American and yay to that.
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“Especially since he seems to have claimed to be a religious person.”
Maybe he knows he’s going to hell for being a Democrat and wants to postpone that.
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Hey, with the kind of damage he’s done to the Democrat party, I’d think you’d love him. 🙂
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You do have a point there! 🙂
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I don’t know, but perhaps as a Baptist he feels that refusing treatment is a form of suicide?
He has the hope, no matter how fleeting, that his cancer is treatable and he may survive it. I saw part of the press conference and he did not rule out some Habitat for Humanity trip in November in Nepal. Denial, perhaps?
Apparently he is on some cutting edge cancer treatment. that doesn’t cause nausea and stereotactic radiation which is more focused on the tumors rather than blasting the entire area with radiation.
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Radiation treatments for brain tumors are not like getting chemo. A main symptom will likely be – losing the hair on your head. Who cares at 90? Brain tumors can be very debilitating: extreme headaches (worse than any migraine), loss of vision, seizures, paralysis. Treating the tumors with radiation will most likely improve the quality of whatever life he has left.
I’ll be surprised if he goes for chemo to treat the source of his cancer. At his age, the chemo would probably kill him before the cancer did.
Note: Carter doesn’t have “brain cancer”. He has liver(?) cancer that has metatasized to his brain. Oncologists can get very picky about such things.
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Carter has specifically stated that his cancer is melanoma, and that it may have originated from a primary site other thanhis skin (where, assuming the excellent medical care he’s no doubt gotten since being President, it would have be discovered).
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“Fear to die until you have won some victory for Mankind.” Horace Mann, 1857
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This is very beautiful.
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