If You Had 100 Days to Live, What Would You Do?
A plea to make the most of your life while you still can.
Imagine you wake up one day and start to feel unwell. Your stomach is off. The thought of eating food repulses you and you’re feeling a little nauseous.
You put it down to a bug and decide to rest for a few days in the hope that it goes away. After a week, you’re not feeling much better and you decide to head to the Doctor’s office to find out what’s wrong.
Once you get there, the Doctor looks you over and keep you in for a while. Far from being a bug, it soon becomes clear that something more serious is at play. After a barrage of tests, they figure out what’s wrong. The dreaded word cancer is used and you’re informed there’s a high likelihood you’ll only survive for a further four months at best.
This sounds morbid and scary but it’s a reality faced by many people around the world every day. It’s also one that could affect any of us. A healthy life up until this point does not preclude you from becoming seriously ill later in the near future.
The question posed in the title is an important one to consider. If we were faced to confront this scenario, what would we do? Facing up to our mortality is not something that we are accustomed to. To have it thrust upon us out…
