http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/08edwards.html
She was an admirable person who deserved a far better husband.
Is it just me, or did she go from “treatment no longer effective” to “deceased” rather quickly? I understand, of course, that treatment may have continued until her condition was quite dire, I was just expecting it would be weeks, at least, before the end rather than a day.
I’ll leave the dark humor for the other threads … I agree with the OP. Her hubby turned out to be a real peach, didn’t he?
Very sorry to read about that. As for her husband: there were problems there before the illness, I believe. It seems shitty for him to have left her after finding out, but some people just can’t cope with fatal illness AND a bad marriage.
RIP. A, by all accounts, good woman, who was dealt some very rotten hands in life, and yet managed to be graceful to the end.
I feel for her, and more for her kids. If she got dealt a rotten hand, her kids have had to put up with their parents separation, their dad’s public misbehavior, and their mother’s terminal illness. To die while my kids were as young as hers, with the trust destroyed between me and my husband would be more painful than anything cancer could dish out.
I hope she rests in peace. I hope her husband bucks up for those kids. And I hope those kids can forgive him because they’ll need him.
It’s a sad ending we all knew was coming. Elizabeth beat the odds for awhile. She still looked pretty good the last time I saw her on Larry King promoting her book. I think that was last winter, Jan OR Feb?
Now, somehow the father has to raise those kids. It won’t be easy given the recent problems in the marriage.
R.I.P.
No dark humor to be had. She was a classy lady all the way.
She seemed to me to be a class act. Damn shame she went through what she did. I hope she has some peace now.
I’ve seen with family and friends that once the doctors tell you there’s nothing left to do, that one often dies fairly quickly – a friend of mine died less than a week after she opted out of further treatment.
Alternately, of course, Ms. Edwards may have actually been given the bad news weeks ago, and the family simply chose to delay saying anything until death was near.
Anyone who wishes to respect her for who she was , for how she lived her life etc, will refrain from any reference to their attitude towards John Edwards.
We can all deal with him at a later time if it becomes neccessary.
I think she was a class woman.
Why?, she didn’t. She handled it with grace and class, but she didn’t ignore it.
I’m not starting a thread months from now to say “I feel for those kids.”
Sorry to hear this, she put up a good fight.
I think it’s common with famous people that the family issues a “they are very sick” statement just before they die. I live near Chapel Hill and the local paper said they heard rumors she was very ill on Sunday so the family statement on Monday was probably put out to beat the media to the punch.
I don’t think a parent ever completely recovers from losing a child. I hope she, and her son, rest in peace.
It was Elizabeth who left - for good reason, surely, but let’s keep this straight.
RIP. And poor kids.
I heard the end of a news article on the local NPR in which a caller asked if the hormone treatments she underwent to be able to have her two youngest children (at 48 and 50 respectively) contributed to the cancer or any of the related health problems in the last few years. The newscaster basically said “No idea”, but does anybody know if there’s been research about this?
MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” said that John Edwards was there with her at the end, so it is possible she forgave him.
Such sad news…we knew it was coming soon, but that never helps, does it?
Cancer, I fucking hate you. :mad:
Leastwise nobody would ask him to leave.
Deny him what you will, Edwards has to be one of the most optimistic and self confident men in the world to have tried and run for president juggling a secret illegitimate baby while his wife battled cancer and reporters dogging his every move.
What makes her such a saint? I don’t have any public persona of her beyond a scorned wife of a public figure, who got cancer. Any accomplishments of her own to earn the accolades? From here it seems like a pretty common story.