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.
We have a hunger for love just as strong as the need for food, water
She says she’ll always love me, but she didn’t say who she was
Voice of harsh inner critic still sucks joy from my creative life
Obama: ‘…all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones…’
This is why people are confused about what anarchists really are
Without meaning, most are blind to rot destroying their own lives
I’m trying to do something new — and I don’t know what to call it
Certainty leaves us unwilling to change beliefs when we’re wrong
‘The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us and save us’