OK. Here it goes.

No doubt everyone has heard of the deaths of Micheal Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. The airwaves are plugged up with up to the second reports of autopsies, concerns, fan reactions, memorials, etc. Among all the noise, the death of a truly brave person goes unnoticed.
  I'm talking about Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald
 For those of you who don't remember, she was a Dr. at a South Pole research Station in 1999. She found out she had breast cancer. Being winter, it was impossible to evacuate her. with help from the outside, she did her own biopsy, diagnosis, and chemotherapy, all while performing her duties as Dr. in the remotest place on Earth.
  Even after being evacuated and treated, she chose to return to her duties down there.
 Was she a millionaire weirdo? An actress? Just some brave Dr. fighting long odds and beating them, that's all.
 Her breast cancer returned, and she died in Massachusetts at 57. No announcements on TV or the web, just a small obituary.
  As long as the world is like this, there will be mediocrity.