RIP Adam Yauch/MCA
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Not do get even more down than we are about this, but I can't imaging coming to grips with knowing death from something like cancer was inevitable. I thought a lot about that after Hillman Curtis died. I'm a pretty strong person, but also one that often wears my heart on my sleeve and can get kind of emotional about memories, dreams, etc. It's hard enough to realize I can't live forever and keep my fingers crossed that I'll live to some ripe old age or something.
But I can't fathom what it must be like to realize you're on that descent - especially too young in life. To even try to comprehend that just shuts my mind down and makes me feel like I've got tunnel vision and can't even hear anything around me. Last summer I had some stomach issues that required a CT Scan and blood tests, and my mom immediately got all worried that I was getting colon cancer because it runs in her family (how's that for motherly support and confidence?). Turns out I was just full of shit - literally - and just needed something to help me poop and I'd been backed up for days. Thought I had appendicitis. But that simple fear that something serious might be wrong, man, it was heavy. I don't know how people do it - dealing with the inevitable from cancer, especially when they're young and they're going to die too soon in life.