If we appreciated resolve the way we do bat speed, my sister would have made the millions and had the big parade. She kept fighting to the end. Strawberry keeps quitting. That makes sympathy for him hard, and empathy close to impossible. But there is a window here.
Cancer is unfair.
No matter who you are or what you have done to yourself, no one deserves what this disease does to you. No one deserves to have organs dissolve or slowly shut down. And if you are already an addict, you don't need any help with depression or self-destruction. Depression feeds addiction and self-destruction. In the minds of addicts, it justifies them even.