Sad, Sad, tear Jerkingly sad

[Fluttereyes]

Uhg, I'm heart broken.  If any of you have watched the show Spartacus Blood and Sand, then you'll know that Andy Whitfield played Spartacus in the first series.  He was amazing in the role.  He was from Wales.

He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma nearing the end of production on season one.  He decided to step out of the limelight and concentrate on his health and his family.  It was a great loss and I was thinking that nobody could replace him but they did replace him, I suppose they had to.  I'd always hoped Andy could pull through and beat the cancer but he didn't.

18 months after being diagnosed he died on 11th September 2011.  He was 39 years old.

I'm choking up here, it's so unfair how life treat us at times.  He had a young family and a lovely wife.  His career had just taken off, shocker.

[Watilla]

I heard about this. Very cruel world indeed.

[sasha]

I know, my dad used to always watch that.  He just couldn't believe how he didn't make it. 

[Fluttereyes]

I thought he'd fight it off too, some people do survive this.  They say that the fitter you are, the quicker cancer runs through you, looks like it was true in his case.  Life's a bitch true enough, he was going to be a big star, blooming shame

[sasha]

Yeah my dad knows a guy who had only been diagnosed with cancer for 8 weeks before he died, he was 39 too. He had 3 young children though which would have been awful.

[Fluttereyes]

It's horrible the way life goes.  I know Andy had some young kids too.

My aunt married her childhood sweetheart and they had three boys.  When she was 26 and he was 28 he died of a brain hemorrhage.  She was left with three boys aged between about 2 and 6 years old at only 26.  It was a shocker as he just got up one morning, was sick and brought up blood, it may have been his nose bleeding too, it happened so many years ago that I can't remember, an ambulance was called to see what was wrong and he was dead within hours.  A very fit young man.  My aunt had gone out to work and she started before him, my other aunt went to their house to watch the kids as usual and he was about to leave for work when he said he wasn't feeling well.  My aunt had to call her own sister to get her to come to the hospital as her husband had died.  So quick and with no warning, you go to work thinking everything's fine, then get a call that your husband just dies at that age.

My mothers brother (uncle on other side of the family) got cancer at 41, within 9 months he was gone too.  I was pregnant at the time with my son and I named my son after him.

Maybe instead of governments going to the blooming moon and having wars that cost untold billions, they should put some money into stopping cancer.  I'm absolutely convinced that cancer is caused by pollutants from cars and factories and I don't think there's enough evidence to say that smoking is a cause, on the contrary.  More people smoked in the 1940's and 50's, and less smoke now, you can't even smoke in a pub so no more passive smoking, yet the cancer rates are higher now than back then and the types of cancer have expanded too.

I hate the way this world is ran, I really hate it.

[sasha]

I know, its very common now.  Its supposed to be that 1 in 4 people get some form of cancer. 

Theres no proof that smoking causes cancer, but surely smoking wouldn't help cause of all the tar and bad stuff in cigarettes.  I can't stand smoking lol.

[Fluttereyes]

I think cancer is something you are predisposed to genetically and if you're going to get it, fumes from anything an start it off, that's why people who don't smoke still get it.  I doubt very much if Andy smoked as he was into his fitness.