Do you think you can be emotionally involved with someone who's dying?

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I know it's not a good picture but I just finished Debbie Macomber's "The Shop on Blossom Street", and love made complicated by ominous death is written all over the book. I originally bought the book for the "baby" reason. You see, any novel about babies interest me nowadays. I was surprised then that it also talks of death in great lengths because one of the character is a two-time cancer patient. After reading I thought, how life can be so fragile, in a matter of seconds, you might just lose it... Sigh. I cried for "Lydia" while reading but I'm so positive that happiness still looms around the corner. It's just a matter of hope. But I was thinking about her dillema this morning. She's been diagnosed with cancer twice and it almost killed her twice, the second killed his father though and with his death came Lydia's reluctance to love again. Who will love her? Who will stay? She seems to be a losing proposition, a woman who could die anytime, someone who might not be able to repay your emotional investment, someone who might not be able to give you children, someone who might not be there tomorrow... Will you take your chances? Will you still go on loving her/him?