Life, the universe and medicine – part 1

Like everyone, I assume Ill live forever. Although I often wonder whether anyone would come to my funeral and who would wear black, it never actually occurrs to me that there is an endpoint. Its almost as if I would come along too to watch proceedings running smoothly and along the lines I wanted.

Death was something I thought about, but in a rather abstract, offhand sort of way. It happened, of course I knew I would die at some point, but that point was somewhere out there way off from...