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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (35682)	3/22/2007 7:37:17 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541337

Well without slamming the right wing. I'd say that the Edwards appear to be a wonderful, truly loving, truly positive, family. I have seen some really (to my mind) ugly posts about Edwards "using" his wife's illness, and how awful it is that he's going to run anyway, blah blah blah. IMO the worst thing you can do when really ill is 1. wait around to die 2. expect or encourage other people to put off their lives while you die, and 3. change your plans in ways that you or your loved ones will always regret. You need to die the way you live, imo- and people who are always looking forward, and always moving forward, will die in the midst of their active wonderful messy lives, and more power to them. I was very ill this last summer, and the last thing I wanted was to seriously constrict the lives of my family. I don't think anything can make dying worse, than piling the guilt on yourself because not only are you dying, and making everyone around you sad, but you've also seriously compromised their own plans. I would certainly forgive the selfishness of a dying person who wished to constrict the lives of those around them- I have seen it with 2 elderly relatives- but it isn't pretty, and it's obviously not the way Mrs. Edwards wants to go out, and more power to her, and her husband, and her children. My estimation of the Edwards family has certainly never been higher.