All My Friends Are Fictional’s Reviews > Departure[s] > Status Update

„I have had a lifelong engagement with death, both theoretical and actual, and have written about it many times. Yet, despite the shiver of 'I can't tell if it is or isn't leukaemia', I hadn't received a death sentence. Instead, I had received a life sentence: sentenced to live with my cancer until I died. When I checked — you have to check — … I was told (if in more scientific terminology): fat chance.“