Ben Sasse on his “Not Dead Yet” podcast said he never understood why someone would choose chemo, with all its side effects, just to extend their life a few months. He concluded that he now knows because he has a 14 year old son.

On the podcast they also said “one day our kids may stop rolling their eyes at us and say, I wonder if my dad had any advice on this or that thing.” For Ben his terminal diagnosis gave him the urgency to try to record those things with his podcast. I don’t have a terminal diagnosis, or any diagnosis, but I want to see what is most important with that same clarity. I want to say, or write down all the things that I would wish I had said if I found out my time was up. I have a 15 year old son and a 9 year old son. I want to value all the time I have with them.