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Terminal Taboo

David Rönnegard articulates some uncomfortable truths about mortality.

This article is unlikely to provide you with much comfort; but terminal illness, like mortality more generally, is clouded by unmentionables that need to see the light of day. Why? Because laying bare that which we least want to discuss might do more good than harm. It also might not. So I am not sure if this article is for you or for me, but please bear with me.

I am an atheist with terminal cancer.

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