If it expects to be the boss of me it’s gonna have to earn that

If this week hasn't made you admire John & Elizabeth Edwards more, you are an idiot.

Although both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards professed surprise at the attention their decision has received, they said they saw a bright side: a national discussion of the ability of patients to live with cancer and of how people need to live their lives under the shroud of mortality.

“We made the choice to live,” Mrs. Edwards said. “We don’t want to do it surrounded by a veil of tears.”