Death Be Not Proud
... to love him. His compassion for others is remarkable. When he is first diagnosed, his first thought is of how he is going to break the news to his parents. He is constantly considering the well being of the doctors that are working on him and the nurses who took care of him. One of the nurses said he was “a picnic twenty four hours a day.” People have a tendency to complain over very minute irritants. John Gunther said there were only a very few instances where he heard his son complain, and that was with a brain tumor, many surgeries, x-rays, mustard gas exposure, and more. People take for granted what they are given so often in life. Everybody is guilty of it. John Gunther wrote the story of his son’s experience in large part to help families with similar experiences. ...