My Own Life

[yogi]

Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
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A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver.
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Hume continued, “I am ... a man of mild dispositions...
Here I depart from Hume. While I have enjoyed loving relationships and friendships and have no real enmities, I cannot say (nor would anyone who knows me say) that I am a man of mild dispositions. On the contrary, I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
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Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine, is the author of many books, including “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opini ... .html?_r=1

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat musste ich mal in der Ausbildung lesen ( in der deutschen Übersetzung ) - sehr lesenswert, wie auch seine Lebenszusammenfassung und seine Sicht der Dinge auf sein Leben in diesem Beitrag.

[Otto]

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[yogi]

Oliver Sacks ist tot
Der britische Schriftsteller und Neurologe Oliver Sacks ist einem Bericht der New York Times zufolge gestorben. Er wurde 82 Jahre alt. Sacks starb demnach am Sonntag in New York.
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www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/new-york-tim ... -1.2627334

R.I.P.