Having a Friend With Cancer Is Good for Your Health?

Younger Son sent me the link to this story on The Onion, hoping to cheer me up. He wrote:

Hello-- I'm not sure black humor would be the best, but here's something that might lighten the mood.

Actually, he knows me pretty well. I think it's really funny, but--a warning: you may not.

The piece says, tongue in cheek, that 85 percent of people who know someone with cancer take up marathon running and other sports ... "The U.S. Surgeon General is now recommending that all Americans get close to a cancer patient," the voice-over says.

Watch it: The Onion: A Friend's Cancer, Good for Your Health?

That's a video piece. I also loved the print story The Onion did about the Race for the Cure.

6,000 Runners Fail To Discover Cure For Breast Cancer

@ Jeanne Sather 2008.

Comments

[nellie]

I found this hilarious!!! Before I was diagnosed I probably would have considered it offensive.

Nellie

[Sara]

BWA HA HA HA HA

I freakin' LOVE the Onion. :) Thank you.

(And take that, author of the Oprah-lauded book The Secret, which I believe urges people to avoid hanging out with sick people in order not to tempt the "laws of attraction." Gah.)

[jeanne]

Sara--are you SERIOUS? There is a book that says don't hang out with sick people?

Oh, god, I've got to get that one ...