The Answer

I wrote the previous post last week and never published it.  Then I watched an AMAZING documentary:

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

If you have a couple hours and want to know everything there currently is to know about cancer check it out.  It is AMAZING!  There was a doctor on there that answered my question, "What is it about cancer?"

This is what he said,

"There's nothing more horrifying, nothing more extraordinary of all human maladies as cancer.  It's us killing ourselves.  There's something profound, something psychological, there's something primitively terrifying about it."

That's it.  That's what it is.