Everyone You Know Someday Will Die

Imagining the end of a loved one’s life is hard, and maybe even harder is contemplating your own death. Below is a collection of entries by writers submitted to the New York Times:

• How Long Have I Got Left?
  • A neurological surgery resident, Paul Kalanithi, wrote with the perspective of both doctor and patient after he learned he had metastatic lung cancer at age 36. He died a little over a year later.
• What to Say When You Meet the Angel of Death at a Party
  • Kate Bowler offers answers to the question: What does the suffering person really want?
• My Own Life
  • Oliver Sacks, a neurology professor and author of many books, writes about his cancer diagnosis and making the most of the time he had left.
• Sabbath
  • Sacks wrote frankly about his religion and his sexuality and about finding a sense of peace. He died at the age of 82
• Children Don’t Always Live
  • “I had a child die, and I chose to become a father again…”

For more writing entries, please refer to the website.

See Kathleen O’Brien, Everyone You Know Someday Will Die, New York Times, May 4, 2018.

Special thanks to Lewis Saret (Attorney, Washington, D.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.