> a. Cancer for many is a terminal disease. True, for about 50% of people it is terminal. I doubt the overlap is perfect. > c. No one mentions the non termina

> a. Cancer for many is a terminal disease. True, for about 50% of people it is terminal. I doubt the overlap is perfect. > c. No one mentions the non terminally ill 95% who presumably enjoy... True, however, about 50% of people will get cancer at some point in their life. So I guess for a lot of people it's more like you live well, until you get sick. And almost everybody gets serious illness at some point (such is life -- it ends). But (b) is certainly a fair point.