Keep Fighting, Stop Struggling: The Miles Levin Story
Cancer sometimes kills, but it always frightens. It did both to Miles Levin. It scared him at age sixteen and it killed him at age 18. While he was helpless to do anything about it killing him, he was able to do something about it scaring him. Although cancer ended his life, he completed his life. Miles triumphed over the disease that took his life; he overcame his fear of cancer and his fear of death. As many of his CarePage readers affirmed in their comments, he inspired them to overcome their own fear of death and fear of life.
The basic thesis of his writing was that cancer and the fear of death can expand your heart and mind. Miles openly grappled with the existential questions of his own mortality, the pain of chemotherapy, and the anger and fear he felt and ultimately transceded.
Miles Levin
On Sunday, August 19, 2007 Miles Levin, an extraordinary young man from Bloomfield Township, Mich, died just six days before his 19th birthday. Miles had attracted an international following through his blog "Levinstory", which chronicled his battle with cancer in wrenching emotional detail and painful but transcendent honesty. He died of a pediatric soft tissue cancer, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
Before Miles was diagnosed with cancer in June of 2005, he was, by his own account, a cavalier student without any philosophical inclinations. But in the face of mortality, he matured quickly displaying an eloquence of thought and perspicacity of feeling in his numerous and frequent blog postings. His blog garnered wide public attention after the Detroit Free Press wrote a column and CNN cablecasted stories about him. Over fifteen thousand readers commented on his blog.