Do you remember The Bucket List? I remember cheering Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman on as they fulfilled their wildest dreams in the movie: racing cars, hiking the great wonders, coming to accept death with dignity. What better lives could there have been than theirs?
Who didn't come out of that movie thinking that the life of the terminally ill should end just as satisfyingly? The men never lost their sense of humor, never lost their heroic place, never failed to show their strength - even in spite of their flaws. Even with their prognosis, their masculinity was not even a question. It stayed with them unto death.
Should a man keep his masculinity to keep his image whole, even when he's been determined to be terminally ill? YES, says popular culture. The alternative - any loss of manliness - is no blockbuster film.
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