Dr. Lucy Kalanithi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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I was in attending by then.
This is when things will like ostensibly become easier.
And then right at that moment, he's diagnosed with metastatic terminal cancer.
The prognosis is like months to a few years.
But we both looked at each other and thought like maybe we should do this still.
Sort of like surprised ourselves.
And he was more certain than I was.
He really, really wanted to.
And I...
needed to sort of shore up like the practicalities it was sort of like is the family on board with this like we refinance the mortgage like all of these things it's like can I be a solo parent like that is what I'm gonna be and then I also was honestly worried about his I was worried about like what you said like how to hold like birth and death and all of it at one time and I
I asked him actually and was like, you are sick.
And like, as you're going through this process, don't you feel like having a child will make dying more painful for you?
And he said, he said, wouldn't it be great if it did make it more painful?
Which just like cracked the whole thing open completely.
And I think actually for anybody who has a child, like nobody is doing it because it's going to make their life easier.
There's like a million things we do that make our lives harder.
Like everything, everything, right?
Like, you know, climb a mountain.
all the way to the top to come down again in the exact same day.
It's like you didn't do that because it was easy.
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