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How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins(jakeseliger.com)

71 points by noonday 2 years ago | 1 comments

No Salt(jakeseliger.com)

459 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 147 comments

A blog post on Jake Seliger's site, written by his brother Sam, about arriving in Arizona as Jake nears death from cancer and handling end-of-life arrangements.

Starting Hospice(jakeseliger.com)

1108 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 140 comments

Jake Seliger's blog post announcing he is entering hospice after his squamous cell carcinoma progressed and efforts to find another clinical trial failed.

Uncomfortable truth: How close is "positivity culture" to delusion and denial?(jakeseliger.com)

56 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 20 comments

The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy(jakeseliger.com)

259 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 46 comments

The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it?(jakeseliger.com)

62 points by vwoolf 2 years ago | 34 comments

The meathead margin: how lifting weights might have saved my life(jakeseliger.com)

39 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 36 comments

Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?(jakeseliger.com)

75 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 62 comments

The quality of your life is the quality of the people you get to know(jakeseliger.com)

18 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 4 comments

The more things go wrong, the more things going wrong(jakeseliger.com)

4 points by vwoolf 2 years ago | 0 comments

Turning two lives into one, or, things that worry me about Bess, after I’m gone(jakeseliger.com)

22 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 1 comments

On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream(jakeseliger.com)

209 points by theoldlove 3 years ago | 104 comments

If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch(jakeseliger.com)

315 points by abecedarius 3 years ago | 217 comments

I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach(jakeseliger.com)

723 points by theoldlove 3 years ago | 386 comments

Jake Seliger's blog post describing his terminal squamous cell carcinoma and arguing that FDA delays keep potentially life-saving treatments out of reach.