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I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle | Death and dying | The Guardian

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When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss

Janis Chen: ‘I stopped measuring my life in weeks and began the audacious task of calibrating it in decades.’ Photograph: Stephen Burke/The Guardian View image in fullscreen Janis Chen: ‘I stopped measuring my life in weeks and began the audacious task of calibrating it in decades.’ Photograph: Stephen Burke/The Guardian Death and dying This article is more than 3 months old I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle This article is more than 3 months old When you are cured, the world cheers; when you

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