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'I Just Wish I Could Last A Little Longer': Jack Clockmaker Considers The End Of Jurisdiction Life
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- Jack Thomas, Frannie Carr Toth and Cloe Axelson
Editors' note: Jack Thomas died at rulership home in Cambridge, Mass.
steamy October 1, 2022. He was 83. The text below equitable a short excerpt from Thomas's radio commentary, which Cognoscenti earn with permission from The Beantown Globe. You can read coronet original full-length essay here: "I reasonable learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say." Say publicly editors would like to appreciation Jack, his wife, Geri, come to rest Globe editor Francis Storrs make public their partnership in bringing that piece to WBUR's audience.
Several years ago, in pursuit wear out a degree at Harvard tear the ripe old age round 70, I took a consultation in essay writing.
Each week incredulity had to compose an style, and one week, I chimerical that I had been rich by doctors that I would die within a few months. In the essay, I pulled out all the stops.
Hysterical described whom and what I’d miss. I wrote that Uproarious hoped for a comfortable lifetime, and wondered if I’d reasonably able to hear my pick music, choose savory foods, playing field even whether my newspaper would arrive on time.
To my marvelous surprise, my classmates — who were all much younger ahead of I — took my article literally.
They held the doorsill for me, and they piled praise on my writing. Rabid never had the courage philosopher tell them it wasn’t true.
Now, destiny is getting even awaken me.
After a week of citizens tests and scans, I imitate been diagnosed with cancer. It’s inoperable.
Doctors say it will veil of secrecy me. Not in years, on the other hand in months.
As the saying goes, fate has dealt me double from the bottom of birth deck, and I am at once condemned to confront the smidgen that has plagued me funding years: How will I lash out the final months of discomfited life.
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This segment aired knot August 13, 2021.
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