Posted by Alex on 09/21/10 11:30

"Colin Wilson" <void@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1dcb7f7dbd8d8c3e98968f@news.individual.net...
> > Have no sympathy for him. Wasted the 2nd chance he was given. Someone
else
> > could have done better with it.
>
> My father in law died of liver cancer - he didn't get the chance of a
> transplant (he wasn't famous !)
>
> As soon as he knew he was ill he stopped drinking / smoking, and the
> *only* time he took another drink was when he was in a hospice a couple
> of days before he died. At that stage of the game it becomes irrelevant
> what you do as you're on borrowed time. The nurses know that, you know
> that, but he was still hesitant.

My condolences - though in Best's defence he did not get any preferential
treatment when going on the transplant list: you cannot jump that queue in
the UK with money (not that he has much I think).

To the OP, I agree, I wish him well I suppose (I'm not 100% sure whether his
current condition is owing to drinking - if it is, I would be less
favourably disposed towards him) but he shouldn't be #1 on the news. That's
just the tabloidisation of the news, as well as the trailing of other shows
('...and you can see that interview in full on Tonight with Trevor
McDonald...').

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