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Oliver Sacks: I Will Live ‘In the Richest, Deepest, Most Productive’ Way
Oliver Sacks at the Brooklyn Book Festival in 2009. (Nightscream (CC BY 3.0)
On revealing that he has terminal cancer, the beloved author and neuroscientist Oliver Sacks has displayed an attitude about the time he has left that others nearing the end might like to model their priorities and behavior by.
Sacks disclosed his illness in an article in The New York Times, saying his “luck has run out” after revealing that he has “multiple metastases in the liver.”
He wrote: “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.”
The Guardian noted that Sacks said “he would no longer watch the evening news, or pay attention to arguments over politics or climate change.”
He admitted he had some fear about dying, and discussed the sadness of seeing friends and loved ones die before him. “Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life,” he wrote. “On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more.”
—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/oliver_sacks_i_will_live_in_the_richest_deepest_most_productive_way_20/
