r/self • u/Calm-Cucumber-252 • 6d ago

I can smell when people have cancer

Believe it or not, I can smell when someone has cancer. It is the most pungent smell ever, and only gets worse the stronger it is. As a child, my grandpa started smelling funny, and after a while he was diagnosed with cancer. The smell got stronger as his cancer did, until he passed away. I thought nothing of it until my Nan on the other side started smelling the same way, and it got stronger until she eventually got diagnosed and passed away too. That’s when I started thinking wait maybe I can smell cancer (or maybe it’s just a coincidence). I started smelling the smell at varying strengths for people in public, and always kinda thought in the back of my head oh man I think they’ve got cancer. However, it wasn’t until my OTHER granddad got cancer and had to stay in hospital and at 17 I got to go visit him in a hospice specifically for cancer patients. I could hardly walk in the building. There it was again - that SMELL! Do people secrete certain chemicals when they have cancer? I have a strong sense of smell so I could possibly pick up on it. It’s definitely not when they’re going through chemo, because I can smell it on people who haven’t started chemo yet. I am genuinely going crazy trying to find an answer. This smell is horrendous and I just don’t understand why I can smell it when nobody else seemingly can??

Edit: on a long car journey rn, feeling a bit car sick so won’t be replying to any more comments for a while. This isn’t an April fools, I’ll repost it tomorrow if u really don’t believe! Will be contacting more research places too :)

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u/ornery_salt 5d ago

... And the tax man smells like cancer

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u/Draic-Kin 5d ago

Suddenly sounds like a Stephen King novel.

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u/Xena_Your_God 5d ago

I would read this

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u/BigChungus876 4d ago

I am reading this..

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u/RussianDahl 5d ago

I would listen the the audio book

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u/skredditt 5d ago

Still counts

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u/Lookingforleftbacks 2d ago

I would too.. and it sounds interesting enough that i might have a little chance of paying attention for more than 1 or 2 pages

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u/Due_Ad_8045 5d ago

Then one day the smell didn’t leave…

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u/PAUL-E-D77 5d ago

Brutal

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u/hitman131313 5d ago

The Smelling Within

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u/Darth_Draper 5d ago

Final Emanation.

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u/laziestmarxist 5d ago

thinnnnnerrrrrrr

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u/DarkAngelAz 3d ago

Or the classic faith healer scam..

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u/Responsible_Season29 3d ago

I love reddit so much.

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u/handstanding 3d ago

The taxman cancereth

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u/Leptonic 2d ago

Actually there's a line in "the talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub that fits this post.

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u/Hector_Smijha409 1d ago

The Smelling

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u/---raph--- 5d ago

the tax man IS a cancer...

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u/Xena_Your_God 5d ago

This should have more upvotes

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u/well-it-was-rubbish 5d ago

And the microphone smells like a beer.

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u/Jegator2 5d ago

I see what you did here 😀

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u/GladSuccotash8508 5d ago

only two things for sure in life and that’s death and taxes.

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u/artem1s_music 5d ago

not because he has cancer, thats just how they smell

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u/Psychotherapist-286 5d ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/Money_Month_3995 5d ago

He is the cancer of society 😂

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u/shez19833 5d ago

shh.. dont tell him/her

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u/grinch1946 5d ago

🤭🤭

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u/irottodeath 5d ago

as he should

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u/soultira 5d ago

This is the most hilariously dark business model ever The tax man part sent me 😂

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u/random_noise 5d ago

Big Pharma sends hitmen...

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u/Xena_Your_God 5d ago

Those are called drug push.. I mean doctors*

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u/baconjeepthing 5d ago

Would you tell him??

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u/Hot_Project6219 4d ago

I’ve smelled it on a person. No I didn’t tell him, he died shortly after

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u/Blappytap 5d ago

Album name, dibs!

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u/chease86 4d ago

"Now I MAY have some news you'll wanna hear but it's gonna cost you...exactly the amount I owe in taxes coincidentally..."

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u/AlGunner 4d ago

But would you tell him?

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u/Observer_of-Reality 4d ago

But you don't tell him.

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u/Flair258 3d ago

but dont tell him

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u/gumby1004 3d ago

the tax man is a cancer!

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u/par72565 3d ago

Even if he doesn’t you’d tell him he did!

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u/callmeadam87 2d ago

And he has to now pay for the consultation as well lol

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u/Antique_Pomelo8977 2d ago

I like to believe that we will feel different if we felt we have a better say wat taxes were spend on, and accountability for the check and balances

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u/Cleetus_76 5d ago

Hopefully