Having terminal cancer has demonstrated to me, beyond any…
Page 294. Having terminal cancer has demonstrated to me, beyond any doubt, that I am, in fact, loved by a great many people, friends, and family alike. People often don’t bother to say this to you when they don’t think that you’re about to die. However, if you are, they seem to make a much greater effort to tell you what you really mean to them. It’s also makes me very happy.
— from The Landing (Death) · Happy Brain by Dean Burnett
In the book
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross spent her life at the bedsides of the dying, and what moved her most was the sudden serenity that so often arrived at the end. One man, writing in the grip of terminal cancer, said the diagnosis had proven to him beyond any doubt that he was loved by a great many people — friends and family who, once they knew the truth about his time, finally said the things people so foolishly leave unsaid. A wise teacher of mine used to say that how we die turns out to be as much a part of the lesson as how we live. — The Landing (Death)