Ben Sasse on facing his imminent death from pancreatic cancer:

Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived.

I’ve followed Ben Sasse’s career with curiosity as he represents one of the most prominent public figures to collide the worlds of U.S. evangelical Christian public witness and secular higher education. He was an on-again-off-again college professor (PhD historian by training) who served as a GOP senator and had a brief but tumultuous stint as the president of the University of Florida (obligatory “booo!!” as a FSU graduate). I’ve spent a significant portion of my life in evangelical spaces, and currently work and study at a large public multiversity. Given that Sasse has stated publicly he left the presidential job because of his wife’s emergent health concerns this turn of events represents a compounded tragic final chapter to a life-book I found riveting. I hope his final act can provide insight to observers for why some find the faith tradition he holds so appealing.