The announcement that U.S. Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is sad news. Like always in America, when a Supreme Court Justice is dead or sick, speculations circulate. Even though Justice Ginsburg is 75 years and the chance of surviving of this deadly type cancer is small, many people talk about her like she is already dead.

In America every detail counts: gender, race and political views. Some people think that if the new president has to pick someone to replace her, it should be a woman and a Latino because America never had a Latino Supreme Justice. Instead of wishing her a full recovery, she is already buried alive. As the Baluba of Congo say, “Do not dispose of the monkey’s tail before he is dead.”