February brings World Cancer Day - and memories
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2 min readWorld Cancer Day is February 4. Cancer takes more than half a million lives every year, and it affects millions more.
Many of the people who lost their lives to cancer in the past year are remembered with Legacy obituaries. And some of those obituaries tell brave and beautiful stories of the many ways people live with cancer. Here are a few of our favorites.
Take that, cancer
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Tom Hansen’s family wrote an incredible tribute to the way their loved one stayed positive in the face of a dreaded disease:
On Sunday, November 17th, Tom Hansen won his fight with cancer. Since this is an obituary, that may sound odd. But it's true. He won because cancer has no one crying for it. No one laughing at its stories. No one who cares enough to drop off lasagna. To help do laundry. Or to plan a celebration honoring its life. If cancer had caller ID, no one would answer. Why? Cancer tried to extinguish Tom's light, yet it did just the opposite, it made it even brighter. Take that Cancer. Tom won because he not only showed us how to live, he made us feel alive.
Tom established a scholarship fund that he hoped anyone would donate to if they wanted to remember his life:
And because of his belief in the power of the written word, in lieu of flowers, his hope was that you would consider donating to the Tom Hansen Scholarship Fund for Influential Writing. Writing that could take the form of the great American novel, justice-seeking journalism or the writing of grants for cancer research and other worthy causes. For more information about Tom's scholarship fund, please gohttp://www.kuendowment.org/TomHansenor checks may be mailed to: KU Endowment P.O. Box 928, Lawrence, KS 66044-0928.Read more
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