There's a tumor there, they can't operate because of another illness effecting her kidneys. She wants to watch her kids grow up for as long as possible before she goes.
Today a mutual friend told her a Jade Goodie joke -
'What's the similarity between Jade Goodie and a Moped? They both can't reach thirty.'
Instead of being upset or offended at the joke, she laughed. She's dying of cancer and she laughs about it.
I joke about my own mortality, with smoking, motorcycling, climbing and age.
Look at life, we live then we die. And its inevitable, we can't fight it, we just need to live with it. We deny our own mortality by believing 'it won't happen to us' or we believe in an afterlife or just try to live as long as possible.
Purely though laughing at death, we show that we do not fear it anymore, and in this action we show our true immortality.
