Yesterday, doctors announced that Elizabeth Edwards was ceasing cancer treatments so that she could live out her final days in peace.  Not long after that article went live, Elizabeth Edwards succumbed to the cancer that she’d been fighting since 2004.  She leaves behind three children, the youngest of which is still in elementary school, and an enduring legacy as a woman who never gave up fighting, even at the end of her life.

Granted, there’s a difference between when something is announced and when something is actually agreed upon, and I hope that doctors stopped treatment long before Ms. Edwards passed.  I hope that woman got a little peace before she passed.  She’d suffered so much in her life, what with her husband’s very public infidelity combined with the nasty business of his love child with Rielle Hunter, her long-running struggle with cancer, and the death of her oldest child, Wade Edwards, from a car accident.  If anyone deserved a little peace for taking on the lot that she did, it was her.

“The same day our campaign ended at Faneuil Hall, we saw Elizabeth head off to Mass General to confront this terrible disease,” said John Edwards’ former running mate, John Kerry.  “America came to know her in a different and even more personal way, as she fought back with enormous grace and dignity.  She became an inspiration to so many.”

Elizabeth Edwards was 61.

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