While they wait in the hospital, happy, healthy
students go to school and make jokes about the
disease that takes the lives of so many people.
Cancer is not a joke. Chances are that someone
nearby knows someone who has had cancer or
maybe even had it
themselves.
“You're giving me cancer/AIDS”
December 2016
According to the American Cancer Society,
about 595,690 Americans are expected to die of
cancer in 2016, and it is the second leading cause
of death. Though there
are some treatments, like
chemotherapy, for cancer,
there are no guarantees
that it will be successful.
Not only are the patients
extremely weak during
the treatments, but they
have to live with the fact
that the treatment may
not work. Living with
cancer is stressful for the
patient and their family.
“About 595,690
Americans are
expected to die
of cancer in
2016.”
N e a rl y 1 4 . 5 m i l l i o n
people alive in the United
States have had some type of cancer, according
to the American Cancer Society. Patients who are
dying from cancer sit in the hospital feeling weak,
hopeless, and miserable while they wait for their
time to come.
“Triggered”
According to Psych Central, a trigger is anything
that sets off a flashback or memory that takes the
person back to a time of trauma that he or she
experienced in the past. It can be set off by a
number of things related to the incident. When a
person is triggered by something they smelled,
Meg Rocha
Shane Prebe
Freshman
Senior
“Though it may be meant as a joke,
somebody could take it actually literally.
I never like hearing it.”
Another popular version
of this phrase is “you’re
giving me AIDS.”
According to UNAIDS,
about 35 million people
have died from AIDSrelated illnesses since the
start of the epidemic in
1981. Anything that can
cause someone to suffer
or even kill them should
not be joked about.
“It's not acceptable. The person saying it
doesn't know what the other person might
be going through.”
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