Advertisement AdvertisementThe problem was that by then he was a shell of the man he’d once been. The author and his dad during better times in front of their home in Wayne, Pennsylvania, sometime in the 1980s. However, given my dad’s state, the doctor wanted an oncologist to weigh in on the feasibility of those options. They couldn’t administer a dose strong enough to cure the cancer, the doctor wanted us to understand, but they might be able to hold it at bay. Even in his dying days, he had shown how beautiful life could be, how much it was worth fighting for.

Source: Huffington Post March 27, 2026 12:15 UTC