A Neuroscientist’s Curious Approach to Dying
A Slight Change of Plans
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The Deep Truth of Being Human
David Frum's terminal cancer diagnosis has led to fresh insights about life and death. He says there is no objective experience, all that we perceive and feel is colored by expectation, comparison, and circumstance. If someone had told him prior to his illness he would have said "Oh, what was me only five years to go?" But after being given the diagnosis of six to 18 months,. now I'm going, hooray, five years. That's a whole lot better than 18 months"
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