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Oliver Sacks on terminal cancer

2015-02-19 17:15:58.647568+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

NY Times: My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer:

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. ...

Of note especially because we have a 20-something in our lives who's stumbling. His upbringing left him with a lack of tools to face reality, and we had a talk last night about philosophies of finite vs infinite resources. This is a good quick musing on living within the finite.

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