Reporter’s notebook, kids, cancer, schools
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- April
- 24
At the end of my interview with four North Rockland High sophomores, I asked them about their thoughts of death and whether being touched by cancer changed the way they thought about the future. I asked them their views on people they knew who had been diagnosed with cancer.
Here are some of their responses:
Nikki Esposito, 16: “I think you just live your life. You don’t know when it could be taken away. You should live it to fullness…definitely, you look at people though different eyes because … they have been through so much and they’re still walking tall and you look at them through a whole different perspective. I would look up to them just because of so much courage, look at the glass half full and not look in the past.”
Raven Hopkins, 15: “I’m extremely optimistic. When I read, I like to learn about good, how someone overcame something, they broke down walls…. It’s not so much I’m afraid of death. Death doesn’t scare me, but I worry ‘what’s going to happen to my sister if I wasn’t here’ or ‘what would be the reaction on my grandmother’, ‘what would I do without my mother?’ It’s the other people, the people left behind.”
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