A close, loving family and work position in society which is meaningful, which is about making the world a better place rather than getting a bigger - having a bigger bank account.
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Henry Marsh
Neurosurgeon and writer
United Kingdom · b. 1950
Science and medicine
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British neurosurgeon, for three decades a consultant at St George's Hospital in London, and the author of Do No Harm, Admissions and And Finally. Diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in early 2020, with a seventy-five per cent probability of recurrence within five years, he wrote And Finally (2022) about crossing over from doctor to patient. He remained alive and in remission at the time of this pass, which makes him the least terminal of the six people here.
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I was looking at ageing in action, in black-and-white MRI pixels, death and dissolution foretold, and already partly achieved. My 70-year-old brain was shrunken and withered, a worn and sad version of what it once must have been. There were also ominous white spots in the white matter, signs of ischaemic damage, small-vessel disease, known in the trade as white matter hyperintensities – there are various names for them. They looked like some evil pox. Not to put too fine a point on it, my brain is starting to rot. I am starting to rot. It is the writing on the wall, a deadline.
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