As a clinician of 43 years:

[PCIntern]

Everybody dies. Yes, even you and your beloved family will die eventually. Today, three years from now, 80 years hence. Soon it will be Limbaugh's Turn.

It shows that behind all the bluster, all the money, all the self-adulation, all these people are just men and women and all the bloviating and posturing will ultimately not do them one iota of good. Those metastatic lesions, those wildly reproducing cells and their insanely mutated mitochondrial DNA will fell these people as they destroy so many others, as it destroyed my brother of blessed memory.

I hope Limbaugh suffers the way he made so many others suffer: it eats at your viscera, his by cancer, many others by his words and the ramifications of his words. Lest we not forget the bitter hatred which spewed from his mouth.

So to paraphrase a Hebrew prayer, let the memory of his hatefulness and rancor be remembered and always be stated as a warning to those who destroy others. May he dwell in the house of the devil forever.

(Yes I know...but his followers do. Jews will certainly understand as will many others. )

[EveHammond13]

1. Dust in the wind

[pbmus]

4. ....fitting that a cancer on our society dies of lung cancer...

[dameatball]

45. Haven't heard that in a while. Thank you.

[griffi94]

2. As I stated on another thread.

I hope he's terrified.

[Raster]

5. As do I. Limpballs has done more to divide Americans than just about anyone else...

...and all for money and prestige. Limpballs has lied and cheated Americans. Limpballs has made profit off of disharmony and confusion. Limpballs stock-in-trade was inciting fear and resentment in his listeners to achieve political ends, which he profited from.

I'll go one further. I hope it hurts like hell.

[griffi94]

9. I considered stating that I hope it's painful.

He's certainly earned it. Everything you say is true.

[calguy]

51. I considered saying "Mega Tumors Rush, Mega Tumors"

But I decided not to.

[catbyte]

39. At least he has a reason to go back on Oxy--if he ever stopped.

[Hekate]

3. KnR

[Karadeniz]

6. I'm so glad I don't have his soul. Mine's not perfect and I'll have to experience the pain I've

Caused others, but I'm capable of repenting and looking for the light. Poor Limbaugh. Poor Trump. They haven't learned at all to extend their light to others. One is basically the same on the other side as this side. Earthbound here, same there. No progress. Away from the light. Too bad.

[Delphinus]

61. I hear you.

I am such an imperfect human ... and I hope I have learned from my errors and not cause further harm. I do my best and try to come from a space of love; not sure that Rush can say that.

[area51]

7. Limbaugh is lucky to be wealthy enough to afford cancer treatment. n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Absolutely. The wealthy are going to receive the best money can buy. Needs to change.

[lagomorph777]

78. I hope he buys a ton of cancer treatment.

It's very painful and will kill him faster.

[Brainstormy]

79. my thoughts exactly

and I do mean EXACTLY.

[safeinOhio]

8. Repent

The time nigh.

[nolabear]

10. Wow. Just wow.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I was taught if you can't say something nice, don't say anything...

[MFM008]

12. R.L. never said anything nice

except for the most rabid hateful republicans.
The hate in your soul eventually eats its way to the surface.

[plimsoll]

14. Yep.

We can hope he'll repent.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I just saw an article about his lung cancer

on my Google Home page and said, "GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!". Fucking bastard...Karma is great when I get to see it happen. I still think he deserves to suffer a lot more than he will. He has health insur, etc and a lot of the people whose lives he has harmed, without even knowing them personally, suffered more than he will. Add up all the hurt and pain that he caused the innocent victims of his cruel, malicious tongue and that is what he deserves.

[Fritz Walter]

81. Link, please?

Having some experience as a Survivor, the term “Advanced” stood out to me. Stage... what? 4? 5?

I’m a firm believer in Karma, but I’m also getting a whiff of hyperbole or other tactics, possibly to bolster sympathy/support from his listeners.

[BigmanPigman]

84. The article said the same stuff that I also heard on the news.

I believe it was from CNN. I don't know what specific stage he is in but he did tell his audience that it is "advanced".

[Stuart G]

15. Rush is, was, and will always be remembered by most people as being..."evil"

He seems to "enjoy" spreading "hate and fear." Rush hurt people in many ways. The "truth" about Rush is what he has as he has as his legacy. Rush joins others in that club, but I cannot name the "others." It hurts me to think about that club.

...I wish the best to those here who have been hurt by Rush Limbaugh in one way or another. This story about Rush and cancer is hurting people now, and that could be the saddest thing that could be said.

[gibraltar72]

16. Cancer of the heart for a long time.

Recently spread.

[Warpy]

17. I always figured all those nasty green cigars would get him

and I know how much he's going to hurt during treatment. It must be a terrible shock to find out his money isn't going to insulate him from the common human experience of suffering and eventual death.

Acquaintances over the years say his off mike personality is low key, almost mousy. That is good news for his caregivers but worse news for him. He played an asshole on raido, poisoning minds and hearts, splitting up families, and hurting the country, all for money that isn't going to help him a bit at the end.

Sometimes I wish I could believe in gods and devils, angels and demons, heavens and hells. I've tried, but I just can't do it. So I'll have to hope the reality of what he is and what he did and how little it means at the end hits him. I just don't think it will.

[rainin]

18. Were we expected to say only kind things when Bin Laden died?

John Wayne Gacy executed by lethal injection... were we expected to refrain from saying anything bad about him? If you want to be mourned, be good to others. When cruel people die, they shouldn't expect to be mourned.

I for one, hope he suffers.

[wnylib]

34. I confess that when I heard the news about

Bin Laden, I raised a fist in the air and cheered.

I generally do not support capital punishment, but I felt no sorrow when Timothy McVeigh was executed.

The only sadness I feel toward Limbaugh now is that he wasted his life on hatred. I feel much more sorrow for his victims.

[CaptYossarian]

80. For bin Laden, it was during the Mets/Phillies game. The crowd erupted and the announcers were

guessing for about 20 minutes. It was hilarious.

I can only speculate which song Elton John will sing at the funeral (He sang at Rush's most recent wedding.)

"Like a candle in the wind" becomes "Oxycontin in a blimp".

[wnylib]

85. I suppose RWers will canonize him

like St. Ronnie.

Hope we don't have to listen to days of commentary about him when he does die.

Hannity will have the hate audience to himself.

[CaptYossarian]

86. You're right. He already has the Medal of Freedom.

Although the person who gave it to him makes the award trivial at this point.

[wnylib]

87. We should start awarding a medalsl of perfidy

to Trump and his enablers, in ceremonies with brief statements on how they earned it.

And more importantly, as an example to the people of good governance and citizenship, award a medal of statesmanship, or call it a medal of honor, for people who exemplify the best of American values. I would not leave it to Congress to choose the honor recipients since Pubs would make a mockery of it. Let it be awarded by a committee of Dems who receive recommendations from the general public as well as from leaders on who should receive each kind of award.

ON EDIT, since the term medal of honor is already in use, a different title for the medal would be needed. Whatever it is called, it should inspire people to standing by the values that are being discarded by Trumpists.

[CaptYossarian]

88. Agreed.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

19. I hope no one discovers the secret of immortality

Not everyone deserves to live forever.

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. Even Orange Shit dies

[Joinfortmill]

21. I'm with you.

This guy is evil. He would do himself and the world some good if he acknowledged his evil words and deeds and apologized.

[dalton99a]

25. His last words will be: "Vote Republican. Re-elect Donald Trump"

[MontanaMama]

22. His soul has always been malignant.

Guess it has metastasized.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

23. Amen

[dalton99a]

24. Rest in the arms of Satan, goddamn evil piece of shit

[panader0]

26. Memphis Slim--"When it all comes down, you got to go back to 'Mother Earth'.

[dameatball]

46. Aint it the truth!

[tiredtoo]

27. Is it politically incorrect to be happy with this news?

Because i am, forgive me.

[Maru Kitteh]

37. Don't feel alone.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. His hate has transformed the USA and nearly destroyed the Constitution.

Perhaps he’ll pull a Lee Atwater and confess all his evil and apologize and atone, but, you know, he wants to spend every last dime and get cryogenically preserved.

[Lithos]

29. No one gets out of here alive

People forget that their time is all too short and the memory of others is their true memorial for eternity.

[3catwoman3]

31. I will try to be noble enough not to wish suffering, but...

...I will not mourn his death nor feel any sorrow if it arrives with haste.

[wnylib]

40. I am very sure that his death will be sooner

than nature would dictate. When he can no longer deal with the suffering, he will OD on morphine.

[3catwoman3]

50. Unless it is tomorrow, it is...

...not soon enough.

[wnylib]

55. I won"t wish it on him, but I won't mourn,

either, regardless of when it happens.

[Dave Starsky]

32. He's been a cancer on American society for 40 years.

I'm actually amazed that they were able to diagnose a discrete metastatic tumor in the rest of the malignancy that makes up his entire body.

[warmfeet]

33. One day, perhaps we can all

learn that we each leave a legacy, a memory for others to follow, or to discard.

I would rather leave a memory to follow.

Limbaugh leaves no such legacy.

[catbyte]

35. My thoughts:

[shanti]

41. Exactly

All of the spew coming from his lungs is going back inside and attacking his own body. Karma, baby.

[Skittles]

36. I don't wish suffering on anyone

but hearing Mike Pence say that Limbaugh is a "National Treasure" made me feel nauseated.

[Timewas]

38. He can find

Sympathy, somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary not from me...

[JoeOtterbein]

42. I'm a stone-cold atheist and I agree.

Suffering is a condition of all life. Even the worst of us suffer.

[BamaRefugee]

43. "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who"...screw it, may he suffer indescribable agony

[dobleremolque]

44. Some people improve the world

by the way they lived and for having lived. Others improve the world by the way they died and for having died.

[dameatball]

47. Not many people find themselves in a position in life to broadly influence the lives of others. The

path they choose after that defines them, for better or worse. No amount of repentance will ever truly change the harm he has caused and no amount of gloating by us will ever change it either. I'm just glad a sad and repulsive chapter in a very large book will end. As a cancer survivor I cannot wish pain on anyone. I expect that one day it will return in my life, so that option does not exist for me. I will be glad when he is gone but have no illusions that money will not soon build another one equally as repulsive.

[MAJones]

48. I think it's weird

that people who consider themselves to be morally superior to the right wing are so eager to spew venom and evil wishes at those they despise. It reminds me of the people they condemn. Wishing pain and suffering on others because they have caused pain and suffering diminishes us as people. Limbaugh will suffer pain and probably anguish as well but it is doubtful he will change his beliefs or attitudes. Whether or not he does accomplishes nothing and if you derive joy or even satisfaction from the thought of his suffering I think it is time for some introspection.

I despise all the same right wing people that most DUers do. But can we create a better world by behaving exactly like them?

[alittlelark]

54. uh, yeah.......

A bloviating hate spewing drug addled parasite got cancer. Many good ppl get cancer as well.

His loss will be deeply mourned by small minded misogynistic racist white men. The losses of good ppl that get cancer will be mourned by loving people.

Limbaugh.........

[Crunchy Frog]

56. So how did you feel about it when bin Laden died?

[Coventina]

62. Welcome to DU

[58Sunliner]

69. We don't behave like them, and their policies have drastic, horrific effects.

These people support a system based on greed, power, abuse, suppression. Sociopathic. The earth can not afford them, we are dying because of them. No we don't behave like them. You normalize their horrors by drawing parallels to them.

[cyclonefence]

77. I do not consider myself morally superior to anyone

including Rush Limbaugh, or even Donald Trump. I hate what they do and who they are. Moral superiority or inferiority has nothing to do with it. What they believe is good, I believe is evil. We inhabit different planes of existence. What they believe is sensible, I believe is cruel. What I believe is good and necessary, they believe is elitist and holier-than-thou. RL and I will never be able to communicate, much less convince either of us of anything, because we do not see the world in the same terms.

If I expressed compassion for him, I think that would be an expression of moral superiority.

I hope his cancer takes a long time to kill him, and I hope it hurts like hell.

[drmeow]

49. I will SO dance on his grave eom

[Fritz Walter]

82. There may be a business opportunity there

If RL gets planted six-feet-under (as opposed to being entombed in a marble file cabinet (mausoleum), going up in putrid, toxic smoke, or otherwise), some food truck entrepreneur could hit the mother lode: selling asparagus to the visitors. Why just pee somewhere, when you can make a strong, lingering statement?
People would line up to add this stop on their pilgrimage to his final resting place!

[Still In Wisconsin]

52. As a fellow Jew...

you have captured my feelings perfectly. Ah dank.

[JudyM]

57. Except the part about the devil!

Though I certainly hope he’s ushered straight to hell, and I don’t believe in that either, except in this case, in fantasy.

[Drahthaardogs]

53. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I hope it's over quickly, not to spare him, but to rid the earth of his filth

[iscooterliberally]

58. A man whose words were not better than silence.

He'll be gone soon. Good.

[2naSalit]

59. National windbag of hate dies of lung cancer... KARMA, BABY!!!

[McKim]

60. He Destroyed Himself with Hate!

He destroyed himself with hate, anger and venom. He is mentally ill and should never have been given a microphone!

[wcollar]

63. The man is an unmitigated liar

I can't help but wonder if he could be spinning his illness as something far worse than it is just to gin up ratings.
As vile as that sounds, he's perfectly capable of doing such a thing.

[dalton99a]

65. +1. He vastly exaggerated his hearing problem and milked it for all it's worth

[LittleGirl]

64. I'll never forget hearing him for the first

time. I was in the car with Mom and her husband. It was the mid-80s.
I said, “who is that?”
that’s Rush.

I said, “what a grumpy old man. Why is he so petty and angry?”

I was no way involved or informed about politics at the time.

Now 40 years later, I can’t wait to hear that fucker is dead. Fuck him.
He’s destroyed my family and created an environment of hatred in my country.
The last time I heard his voice was at my brother’s house.
I said, how can you listen to that guy?
He shut off the radio.

[Rider3]

66. I must agree

I don't like to speak badly about anyone's health, but Limbaugh hurt a lot of people by pandering lies and conspiracies. I will not shed one tear on his behalf when he goes.

[dawg]

67. I hope he doesn't suffer much.

I don't want anyone to suffer.

[Neema]

68. I hope the treatment or the disease has rendered him completely

impotent so he can no longer take his sex tourism trips to the DR.

[fescuerescue]

75. That is curiously specific

I wonder why the FBI hasn't jumped on this yet?

[Neema]

76. It was in the news years ago when he got caught coming back from the DR

with a group of guys and a huge amount of Viagra in his luggage not prescribed to him. But, like so many things, it's only a problem for non-Republicans.

[dem in texas]

70. Hateful words beget more hateful words

I very much dislike Limbaugh, but don't wish cancer on him or anyone. He will soon be gone and his name will only be mentioned in passing. Let it go.

Have good thoughts and try to do a kindness for someone (friend or stranger) every day.

[MaineBlueBear]

71. He will get what all living creatures get

a lifetime. No more no less.

[Initech]

72. As I have said, I will neither celebrate nor feel sorry for him.

And treating him the same way he's treated so many who have suffered from horrible, debilitating diseases. That's about all he deserves, really.

[Dukkha]

74. I will show Limbaugh all the sympathy and compassion

that he showed to Michael J Fox.

[RVN VET71]

83. And that little boy who slurred his speech because of brain damage

Oh, yeah, that was a real Rush yuk-yuk wasn't it. And Don't ever forget the "dog in the White House" quip. What a man, what a real man.

I'll always remember his ass-pimple, the anal cyst he kept to keep him out of the draft -- while he supported the war in Vietnam. The cyst made him unfit for duty, of course, but it was treatable, operable, and the Army would have paid his medical bills. (I know because I served with a guy who took advantage of such an offer from the Army. 4-F because of a damaged testicle who was pre-cancerous, he had the surgery and emerged fit for duty. Rush surely had the same offer.

(He lied for years about his condition, though, claiming it was a football injury.)

Still, though I have loathed and despised this man for decades, I hope he is sufficiently drugged to numb his suffering. Sadly, though, he will not deny alone. In fact, I suspect his funeral will be well attended by crowds of the hateful, spiteful, smug, stupid people who listen to him daily.