Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology at the New York University of Medicine. He had an ocular melanoma (a rare tumor of the eye), the treatment of which with lasers and radiations left him blind in that eye. On discovering that he had multiple metastases in the liver, he wrote this lovely piece.
"It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can"
"Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."
NYTIMES published a correction: Around 50 percent of ocular melanoma metastasizes.
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