You never considered it odd that RBG overcame several cancers until she was no longer useful at 87 years old. Most people only live a year or two after the cancers that RBG lived through time and again. She had twenty years of one cancer after another.

"Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday evening, had overcome four bouts with pancreatic, lung and colon cancer dating back two decades. ... "It's fairly uncommon to have so many cancers successfully treated and then to be able to live through them, certainly as long as she did – and to tolerate the treatment of these in her 80s, it's a testament to her," said Dr. Kiran Turaga, director of the Surgical Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at the University of Chicago Medicine."(Hauck, 9/19)