Nothing is more certain than death — so why does the approach of death always surprise me?
People die of cancer every day. The disease is so common that most of us don’t even think much about it. I certainly don’t. Even though I had breast cancer more than 10 years ago, I still don’t think about getting cancer and dying from it. And I don’t think about it happening to my friends.
I have a friend who had a routine cancer screening — a lung scan — about a year ago. He was a smoker, so it was supposed to give an early warning if there was anything wrong.
The scan showed what could be a couple of small tumors on his lung. After a biopsy confirmed it was cancer, those two small nodules were removed through surgery. Then he went through months of chemotherapy. And now he’s had another scan to see whether it worked.
He found out this evening that the cancer has metastasized — to his lymph nodes and his liver. And now that I fear death might be coming for him, I don’t know what to feel. In the end, nobody cheats death.
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For first time in my life, I fear not finding love and life I’ve needed
‘Tolerant’ left seethes with hate if you don’t accept ‘gender theory’
Moral principle: What you do with your money is your business
The more I understand humans, the less I believe we’ll ever all get along
Apologize while you still can, because you’ll live with regret
I choose love over hate, because the author of the story’s not done
Egypt trying to prove democracy means tyranny of the majority
After last month’s weight freakout, something’s shifted in my attitude