Saturday Reads

Whoever thought this was a good idea should be shot.
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Sad news about John McCain.  He has ended his cancer treatment for glioblastoma.

The disease is as bad as it gets:

The prognosis for the disease is so poor — the median survival time is just 18 months — that most patients and their families eventually face the difficult decision of when to end treatment, said John de Groot, a neuro-oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

“At some point, all existing therapies have been tried, and sometimes experimental ones have been tried, and despite that, the tumor continues to grow,” he said. “The tumor burden becomes so great that doing anything additional becomes futile.”

Incredibly, his mother is still alive at 106.
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Actor Tim Conway reportedly isn't faring much better.  At 84 he is suffering from dementia.
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