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There are over 100 different known cancers that affect us. According to a 2012 report, it caused about 8.2 million deaths.
And as cancer claims more lives, stories of people dying of cancer abound. Some that present the heartbreaking reality of a cancer patient, and some that offers us valuable life lesson.
Mohammad Sani's battle with cancer as captured by his brother Ahmad Yusni, a Malaysian photojournalist.
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One such story comes from a 24-year-old, who took to Reddit on 28 February 2015 to share his life story. Posting under a username 'mylasttie', he shared a photo of a tie that he says it's the one that he will wear on his funeral a few months from now.
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His cancer diagnosis came too late. It made him realise that the most important thing about death is to ensure that we leave this world a little better than it was before us. He laments about how his existence will not matter as he has lived a meaningless life.
"The cancer diagnosis came too late to give me at least a tenuous hope for a long life, but I realized that the most important thing about death is to ensure that you leave this world a little better than it was before you existed with your contributions. The way I've lived my life so far, my existence or more precisely the loss of it, will not matter because I have lived without doing anything impactful."
Pointing out how before there were so many things that occupied his mind, it all changed once he learned how much time he had left. So, in order to give some meaning to his own life, he writes, he decided to share what he has realised.
He says it's difficult for him to fully express his feelings about the importance of the simple realisations, but he hopes that people will listen to him, someone who has experienced how valuable our time on earth is.
"I'm not upset because I understand that the last days of my life have become meaningful. I only regret that I will not be able to see a lot of cool stuff that should happen soon like the creation of AI, or Elon Musk's next awesome project. I also hope that the war in Syria and Ukraine will end soon."
Expressing his thoughts about life, he writes:
He says we can either float through a life created by circumstances, or we can fight for what we believe in and write the greatest story of our life. "I hope you will make the right choice."
So what has he realised? We list them below.
"Don't waste your time on work that you don't enjoy"
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