The Rabbi of my synagogue asked me on Yom Kippur how I was doing.
"Well, this year the idea of the book of death and life has a lot more significance."
"I saw an interview with Lance Armstrong once. He said, "if cancer weren't so fatal, I wish everyone would get it. You look at things very differently."
This is definitely true. Take a moment to read Jay's commentary on his long-term ordeal fighting cancer.