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Getting Ready For Death With Few Regrets

Published August 19, 2021 at 12:52 PM CDT
Jack Thomas on his sailboat, The Butterfly (Courtesy Geri Denterlein)
Jack Thomas on his sailboat, The Butterfly (Courtesy Geri Denterlein)

Longtime Boston Globe newspaper reporter Jack Thomas recently found out that he has months to live after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer.

He reflects on a life well-lived and how he will spend the final months of his life.

This essay comes to Here & Now from Cognoscenti, WBUR’S ideas and opinions team. To read Jack Thomas’ original full-length essay from The Boston Globe, click here.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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