Too Much Awareness?

Honestly, I am kind of divided on this. You have the reality of cancer, and you have audience consideration.
Personally, my little sister died at age eleven due to brain cancer, and I have an aunt who died of breast cancer. Not everyone is a survivor, even though those are the stories we want, and need more of.

clipped from www.foxnews.com Comic Strip Character Succumbs to Breast Cancer Sparking Praise, Outrage October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But did the creator of the comic strip "Funky Winkerbean" take the "awareness" part too far? The decision by cartoonist Tim Batiuk to have Lisa Moore, the cartoon strip's wife, mother and lawyer, succumb to breast cancer last week has sparked both praise and anger, ABC News reports. "People have been incredibly kind and generous," cartoonist Tim Batiuk told ABC News, adding that hundreds of fans have e-mailed him about the story line. But others are unhappy. "You are a man who seems to be without any idea of the pain (you) are inflicting," wrote one grandmother on TheCancerBlog.com. "You do not have the right to put this horror in a family newspaper."