Alex Trebek

   Listening to him talk, I am reminded of Dorothy's struggles with cancer. Like him, she became aware that the treatments which seemingly brought relief from the disease could not continue forever, i.e. much longer. When told of the inexorable path of the cancer, she, like Alex, said, "I've had a good life for 71 years."    It seemed to me, when she calmly said that to her oncologist at what turned out to be her very last visit, that she was trying to spare him from the terrible truth.