#patrick moore
Father Patrick Moore and Our Lady of Fatima
Father Patrick Moore, of the Scarborough Foreign Mission, sits next to the World Pilgrim Statue of our Lady of Fatima en route to the Port of Spain, Trinidad where he will begin his 20th trip around the world in his 32nd year of travel. Father Moore will continue to carry the statue uncovered by land, sea, and air as a Symbol of Peace around the world until 1982. (Photo by Bettmann)
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The relevant Guardian article contains this sentence:
He died after failing to fight an infection.
That just gets on my tits no end. Yes, Sir Patrick died because of his failure. Sure. That has no insulting implications at all.
It wouldn’t annoy me so much, but cancer is often treated in the same way. I think it’s part of some larger inability to accept that some things going on in your body are simply not a matter of choice. It’s not enough that something simply didn’t kill you, you have to be hailed as a hero for being courageous and brave. The implication being that if something did end up killing you, you just didn’t fight hard enough.
Martial metaphors for disease need to die out.
