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I believe in funding cancer research. Although cancer is a disease that happens to relatively few people, it is remarkably frightening. The reason it is so frightening is because cancer is not only for the poor, the weak, or the ignorant. Washing your hands will not prevent cancer, and your immune system will almost never just eliminate it. In this way, the fear of cancer is similar to the fear of a shark attack, a jellyfish, or a sting ray's barb. It matters very little that there is a small chance of being eaten by the shark, and it matters very little that there is a very small chance of being barbed by the sting ray. The key issue is that while in the water, a human feels vulnerable. If a shark attack did happen, I would never see it coming... This is because murky water takes the power of eyesight away from a human, thus making him defenseless against a surprise attack. The only cure for this fear is to step out of the water. But just imagine if there were no land to step onto, if the cancer were always there to threaten even the happiest moments, with the gruesome possibility of death. Children left parent-less, and dreamless, and not just the distant poor African ones. Someone just like you will get cancer and die from it this year. Someone just like you will have to abandon their children... forever. This should not happen. People should not have to live in this fear. Medicine has consolidated life to such a degree that unexpected death almost never occurs; making it all the more devastating when it happens.