Mortality

I Would Say “Fuck Cancer,” But I Don’t Think It Deserves Something That Enjoyable

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Cancer has touched the lives of too many people in my life. You could say it’s the creeper neighbor of the medical world, and it needs to stay the hell away from the people I love. A week ago, we found out that Austin’s Uncle Ron has a brain tumor. He’d been having headaches since … [Read more…]

On Dying an Unbeliever – Roger Ebert’s Thoughts on Death

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Roger Ebert died today after a long battle with thyroid cancer. I was honestly too young to have paid much attention to his movie reviews, but he and Gene Siskel’s  iconic “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” method of critique has become ingrained in our cultural imagination. Indeed, it has outlived them both. I found Ebert’s … [Read more…]