Kennedy's cancer puts focus on quality of life

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | 3:36 p.m. CDT; updated 4:21 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, August 26, 2009

He lived 15 months with an incurable brain tumor, a little longer than usual for a patient in his late 70s. Perhaps equally important is that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy lived those months well — able to work almost to the end, to sail the choppy New England waters he adored, to help elect a president he supported, and even to give him a dog.

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