Been taking care of young patients lately. Young as in younger than me or close to my age.
Not all of them are terminal. But when they are, it gets to me. "Mortality," as Keats wrote, "weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep" in those times and it scares me. But it also helps me prioritize what's important in my life.
That was a downer, now here's an upper from that much-missed Gary Larson strip, "The Far Side":
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