Long after we’ve finished dissecting the tragic life of Elizabeth Edwards, I will remember her for this: her honesty and courage in living with cancer.  Like Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve before her, she brought into light the reality of living with advanced, incurable disease.
She didn’t try to tie a pink ribbon around her situation, either.  She knew this disease would take her life, and she told us so.  She knew that her days were numbered, and she reminded us that o…