The YouTube algorithm recently showed me a Consuelo Mack interview with Jonathan Clements. I initially considered the possibility but dismissed it.
Until one of my Telegram group members watched and shared with us:
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For those who have not paid attention to the space, Journalist Jonathan Clements spent a large part of his career educating us in personal finance. He created the excellent forum/blog Humble Dollar. Humble Dollar became a platform for folks of different walks of life to tell their money stories.
Jonathan Clements had some balance issues and went to see the doctor.
Two days later, he received a devastating cancer diagnosis. Scans revealed a golf-ball-size tumour on his lung, and the disease has spread to his brain, his liver and elsewhere.
I was honestly quite shocked when I got the news. I don’t know Jonathan personally but perhaps both of us, being financial writers, made me imagine how possible that would have been me instead of him.
What clouded my brain a year after my dad passed away was less about the markets, but the thought of suddenly passing away, or getting a terminal diagnosis within five years from dad’s passing.
The video is a good watch.
I always thought that we all would deal with death and dying differently.
I am not going to write much about it but here are a few articles about this that is worth reading:
“Living was easy. Dying is harder” | the Washington Post “My first reaction hearing my cancer diagnosis: I’m okay with this. My reaction a few hours later: I’m being self-centered.” | No regrets “I ended the day in the intensive care unit of a local hospital, where the staff discovered lung cancer that’s metastasized to my brain
