To "Guest,"

Your statement "He's probably been on smack the whole time but just wanted to get his name in the news" reveals your extreme lack of intelligence, tact or empathy.

Please try to have empathy for those of us with a terminal disease – even if it the physical ailment is due to our own actions/choices.

Would you be that cold-hearted to a smoker with lung cancer? A smoker choose to light up.

How about a rodeo bull rider who becomes paralyzed from the neck down because he fell.? He had a choice to get on the bull.