I lost someone to cancer 4 years ago. Her sister prayed, I tried to pray even though I don't know how to. And people around me wonder why I'm not a God fan.

Let this be a lesson for all of us. When we are old enough to retire, damnit, retire. There's absolutely no point in working till you drop dead.
In regards to people who claim if they stop working they will die. They are covering up the fact that they save a dime for retirement and can't afford to retire.

Trebek has a disease that is a death sentence. I feel for him because my mother died from the same thing. They say this puts me at risk also. The thing is, prayers to imaginary gods will not help you. My step father just knew that god was going to heal mom. God healed about as many as he healed the last time. Mom lived about as long as anyone else that developed the disease. Perhaps if we had prayed differently and held our tongues in other areas of our mouths. Maybe doing that and then hopping on one foot.

Patrick Swayze died of the same thing but he lived longer than my mom. They say his wife is still so terribly upset with him for dying and leaving her. She was under age when he and Lisa first met. Oh, but Miss Nemi, it was not his fault. He did not want to die and leave you.

I thought his announcement was very brave. I was impressed with how he still had a sense of humor about it. I didn’t have much of an opinion about the man before, but now I very much have respect for him.

How can someone watch that and the only take away be the prayer part?

Pancreatic cancer is a near definite death sentence. Have a little compassion for those having to deal with that.

Fuck cancer and you if you chose this as your moment to be a heartless bastard.

It's not real, but people believe it is. It gives them comfort. If you wouldn't stand in front of his hospital bed and tell him "none of this prayer bullshit is real and ya gonna die painfully scrub, get rekt" then kindly remember you are making us look like shit and hush. I'm begging you.

We can talk about how prayer is pointless and if the g-o-single d was real he'd certainly be wanting to help all the starving children first or whatever, just not like this. Please?

This is ridiculous! Do you hear yourselves? What the hell does a prayer cost anyone that wants to pray. I don't care how much .money anyone has...cancer is cancer. It's painful, scary, doesn't care if you are rich or poor. Where the hell is your compassion?

by the way, you refer to him as privileged, as if his having become rich means he won't die in pain, or that he is a worthless person. now, i am no fan of his work. i haven't got feelings about him at all except mild annoyance at the life insurance ads. so i looked him up to see whether he was born into privilege (nope, he was the son of a ukrainian immigrant [to canada] and worked his way through college) or if he hoards his money and does dumb stuff with it, and as for that, this is what i found on wikipedia:

"Trebek hosts the annual The Great Canadian Geography Challenge in Canada and previously hosted the National Geographic Bee in the United States. He hosted the National Geographic Bee until 2013. Active with World Vision Canada, a charitable organization, he has travelled to many third-world countries with World Vision projects, taping reports on the group's efforts on behalf of children around the world.

"Trebek and the entire Jeopardy! crew became involved with the USO in 1995 and have appeared on several military bases throughout the world, both in an attempt to find contestants and as a morale booster for the troops.

"In 1998, Trebek donated 74 acres (30 hectares) of open land in the Hollywood hills (worth over $2 million at the time) to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.

"The American Foundation for the Blind, in 2001, awarded Trebek one of the year's six Access Awards for his role in accommodating notable Jeopardy! champion Eddie Timanus.

"In 2016, Trebek donated $5 million to the University of Ottawa to fund the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue, the objective of which is 'to expose students to a wide range of diverse views, through speeches, public panels, events and lectures by University of Ottawa researchers, senior government officials and guests speakers from around the world.' Trebek's gifts to the university, which at the time totaled $7.5 million, also fund a Distinguished Speaker Series, which has included a presentation by Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, introduced by Trebek. In 2017, Trebek funded the Alex Trebek Leadership Award at the University of Ottawa, an annual $10,000 award to a summa cum laude graduate who has also demonstrated community leadership."

there still isn't any god, but so what?

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He seems to to be a nice enough guy,but If I had a list of unfortunate individuals I was going to pray for he would be so far down the list I would not have the time to reach him.An over paid game show host who hasn’t had a hard days work in the last half century has the audacity to ask me to pray for him .Are you kidding?

People should pray for other Individuals and not ask people to pray for themselves .To me this reeks of being self centered .But the concept of prayer is so absurd it’s a nonissue.

I know two people who died from this. They went very fast. If we can not sent prayers, we can at least send thoughts.

Trebek is 78 years old, he's had one helluva successful career.
He's got a nice family, from all reports.
He's had a good run, and his time is nearly up.

I've know three people who were told that they had pancreatic cancer.
They were ALL dead within four months of getting the diagnosis.

Yes, it's absurd to request prayers from anyone, for anything.
I think it's a desperate gambit no matter who is doing it.
However, being desperate makes delusional people do increasingly stupid things.
Like asking for prayers when they know they're dying.

i don't care. let him. he's dying. you wanna write him a mean letter telling him to cut it out, even if it's the only thing that makes him feel better? what if millions of starving kids are also praying, or asking for prayer? wanna write them a mean letter too? if it makes you feel better to qvetch here, just be aware that your complaining about trebeck doesn't feed any hungry kids either.

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There's no downside to offering support to people who are dying. It's certainly fair for him to ask if he believes it will help. It must be terrifying.

Alex Trebeck essentially is living his last few months - and they likely won't be easy. And he's known to be a pretty kind dude. A little compassion wouldn't kill ya would it ?

There are many situations that are dire in this world. Any gods watching TV will not change them.

Chill, dude. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

unfortuntely, there will be no supernatural help for Alex or the children.
i can't really fault him for asking for the fan's prayers.

God loves Jeopardy because it knows the questions to all the answers .LOL