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By Henry Schulte

Sep 18, 2025
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In Contemplation of My Death

I’m 72, same age when my father found out he had pancreatic cancer. Up until then I never heard of it or how deadly it was. Months later he passed. That was twenty years ago.

It was a grueling slow death. I began to get the same stomach pains he descr…

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