Reply #16: "I'm struck by how the ugliness seeped out and just took over his entire body."

[11cents]

Naw. That was the cancer.

I don't advocate fighting (or alerting) over this either, but I do advocate thinking about the objections made here instead of getting defensive about them. Over on Free Republic there are undoubtedly people who think that Molly Ivins was "ugly inside." If one of them had the means to post a photograph of her as she looked when she was near death (and I can guarantee you she looked horrible) as an example of her "ugliness seeping out," I think you'd find that repugnant.

Cancer isn't a morality tale.