My prayers are with Senator Kennedy.  We love you.

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While I empathize with the Senator's family at this time, I take some consolation in knowing that he has has a long and most productive life, a life which has positively impacted on many, the world over, though it was one interspersed with many moments of prain and grief. Indeed, such is the common thread which unites us humans, though some, too many, don't seem to view life that way.

I also wish to say that health risks are insurable.

And that the way for you to avoid the fears, such as you mentioned in your own case, is by living your life as though your present inhalation is the last one you'll ever have. Bless!

Unless you do nothing but watch Fox News, most normal people in America feel a deep sadness. Even John McCain broke from an interview when he heard the initial report on the hospitalization. May I posit another strange source of tmy sadness? Indeed...a personal, almost selfish angle. It means I, too, am aging and must eventually come to terms with ill health. We grow up with certain icons, heroes, constants--from parents to favorite athletes to TV stars to people like Sen. Kennedy. When they go, it shows how this world isn't full of reassuring constants. It's all about flow, and part of that flow is that we, too, will come to an end, and that's some scary stuff. For now, I'm not frightened. For now, I sad--and not just over this man's waning from center stage in our lives. I'm sad for me too...

NO NO NO! SENATOR KENNEDY LEFT A WOMAN FOR DEAD IN A CAR UNDER THE WATER! HE SWAM AWAY, WENT HOME, GOT HIS FIX IT MEN. WENT BACK TO THE SCENE, FREAKED OUT, SWAM(!) TO HIS PVT BEACH AND DIDNT REPORT THE CRIME UNTIL HIS PEOPLE HAD MET WITH THE POLICE AND ARRANGED FOR HIM TO BE CHARGED WITH LEAVING THE SEEN OF AN ACCIDENT! HE THEN WENT TO MARY JO KOPECHNE'S FUNERAL IN A NECK BRACE BECAUSE OF HIS INJURIES. ONLY PROBLEM WAS THAT REPRTERS HAD SEEN HIM PLAYING FOOTBALL AND FLYING KITES AFTER THE DEATH! DO YOU FLY KITES AFTER YOU HAVE KILLED SOMEONE?

THIS IS THE SAME GUY WHO HELPED HIS PIG OF A NEPHEW TO BEAT A RAPE RAP.

ALSO HE SAID SUPERDELEGATES SHULD VOTE WITH THEIR CONSTITUENTS. WELL, ONCE AGAIN, THE RULES DON'T APPLY TO HIM (OR JOHN KERRY) THEIR STATE MA VOTED FOR CLINTON .

WHAT A CREEP.

I am very sad to hear about Senator Kennedy's illness, but he will have he best medical advice, best medical care and best cutting edge treatment there is to offer.

Several years ago, a friend received the same diagnosis as Senator Kennedy's.  The care given was adequate, maybe even good because of medical insurance.  Many people are faced with the same dire health issues without the benefit of the high level of medical care that Senator Kennedy will receive.  

I feel you so bad, it hurts Melissa.

As a brainiac,  I am fearful of brain illnesses and especially mental diease.  I hadn't much thought about Ted Kennedy's illness in the way you examined it, but I'm glad I read your post.  Senator Kennedy shines even in his old age, and I wish him the best.  Now when I think about him I will be a bit more reflective.

thanks

Senator Kennedy's brain tumor forces me to face my own mortality. I, too, have a brain tumor, one that I check by MRI and worry about constantly. My prayers and hopes are that he have a peaceful and serene life - that's because I want the same. I would like to  go to meet my maker with love and courage. I recommend that we all read Thanatopsis.

I'm checking in late but I'm with thevegasstyleguy - He got to live longer than Mary Jo Kopechne.

WOW the Vegasstyleguy has no mercy. He and those who think like him need to remember that only God has the right to judge a persons life He doesn’t know the man only God knows. There may have been many instances in his life and deeds that he committed that have made up for the highly publicized versions of his life circumstances. Who's to know? ... Only God. And he has the gall to be called Vegas style guy... who knows what he has done? But even more ironic... who cares? There is only one response to someone in Kennedy's predicament. That is to hope he fairs well cause there but for the grace of God Go I. But even if you don’t believe in God; please don’t jinx yourself by judging someone else.