Originally Posted by bascapline

You still are not understanding what I am saying. Below is just one of the posts from the board. Some thought she was being vain. So? Again, if you had an ostomy and had to live with one, you would understand what is being said here. She opted not to have one. Ryan O'Neil himself said she was vain. Read below.

DEATH OF FARRAH FAWCETT FROM RECTAL CA
by xxxxx 06-26-09

I just needed to write this email for a discussion, and ventiliation, of how sad I felt for the death of Farrah Fawcett, Charlies Angle, and I know we chose our own paths, and treatment in life, but after watching her story on TV and hearing Ryan ONeal say she was "too vain to live with a bag and colostomy and have her colon removed" which could have saved her life horrified me. She chose alternative treatments, and I cant say I blame anyone for chosing that, but to lose your life due to not trying surgery to have a permanent colostomy/ileo due to vanity, is sad sad sad. I just wondered how others felt. I heard her story on TV, and was shocked, even though it was a shock to me waking up with a colostomy after a surgery mishap and I was truly in shock, but it saved my life, and I learned to live with it, wheter or not I ever had a reversal or not, which I was able to Thank g-d. But if I ever need another colostomy permanent down the road, no one is ever happy about it, but they live with it , accept it and go on with life, and make the best of it, being happy to be alive, but this was so sad and really threw me that she wouldnt accept living with a colostomy so had to die, she might have died either way from the cancer, but her chances they said on TV were alot better with the colostomy, which my aunt has lived with for over 30 years due to rectal CA. Just wanted to know how others felt.