About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas。The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die.Later that evening I had a biopsy. The doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form. of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. Death clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday you will become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true