{"id":138,"date":"2010-04-22T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/one-man-with-cancer-helps-others-choose-joy.html"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:12:05","slug":"one-man-with-cancer-helps-others-choose-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/one-man-with-cancer-helps-others-choose-joy.html","title":{"rendered":"One Man with Cancer Helps Others Choose Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cancer Sucks&#8230;Life Is Good&#8230;Choose Joy&#8221; is the motto of a man from Springfield, Oregon.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/judasforgiven.blogspot.com\/\">Aaron Jamison<\/a>, a comedian and musician,&nbsp;has terminal cancer and is expected to have&nbsp;3-9 months to live.&nbsp; Jamison hands out purple bracelets printed with the above words to&nbsp;encourage others to smile and look on the brighter side of what life hands you.&nbsp; He wants to&nbsp;&#8220;spread a message of hope&#8221; to those he meets (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/91559414.html?\">KATU.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the bracelets, Jamison also wants to support his wife financially so she won&#8217;t have to struggle with paying his burial costs.&nbsp; To do so, Jamison is doing something unorthodox: Selling ad space for two urns he plans to get for his cremation.&nbsp;&nbsp;By placing ad on his urns, Jamison hopes to cover both the urn and cremation costs, which would be a total of $800, an amount his disability checks and small life insurance policy won&#8217;t be able to cover because of his medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>So far, two businesses have chipped in&nbsp;for ad space to&nbsp;help Jamison support his wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch a&nbsp;video of the news report on Aaron Jamison:<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/v\/?i=91559414\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more on Aaron Jamison:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/91559414.html?\">KATU.com: Oregon Man Selling Ad Space on His Urn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/judasforgiven.blogspot.com\/\">Aaron Jamison&#8217;s Blog: Judas, Forgiven<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cancer Sucks&#8230;Life Is Good&#8230;Choose Joy&#8221; 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