Lung Cancer (and Pancreatic Cancer) Awareness Month is almost over.
Like any ‘awareness month’, the end of it is a signal that the world has been
loosed from its month-long obligation to be aware of our suffering. For those who live with and suffer from
cancer or whatever condition or ailment warrants its very own month, we
continue to be painfully aware of our conditions day after day after freaking
day.
Awareness is great. Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s important for
people who suffer to have support. But by marketing awareness, what do we
really do? We make people feel good, recognize their unfortunate status,
thankful, perhaps that their condition is not ours, and move on. Oh, and we also buy stuff.
Awareness can also spur donations, a (sometimes small) percentage
of which goes to treatment research, which is very good and very necessary. But
the question for me is why are we not spending more money looking for causal
agents? I understand that this is a huge undertaking, especially considering
the vast varieties of cancer types and sub types that are just being discovered.
But think of the money that we as a society spend on cancer t-shirts, rubber wrist
bands, NFL sweatbands, and pink just-about-everything that could be used for
researching why so many of us are getting cancer in the first place.
So as you turn the page on your calendar and turn your thoughts
from those with Lung and Pancreatic Cancer, you can say hello to December – International
Safe Toys and Gifts, National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention, Season Depression
Awareness, Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness, and Young Children’s Safe
Toys & Gifts Awareness Month.
I've just ordered rubber wrist bands for all of them.
Nice cause!!! I thought their is no month or a day for any think awareness. You can aware person any time. But its really a good cause.
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