Jonathan Clements is the founder of HumbleDollar.com and the former personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal. OPINION What if you were told you had a year to live? Life coaches sometimes pose questions like this to help folks figure out what’s truly important to them.
But for me, this isn’t a theoretical question. On May 21, on the cusp of retirement and at the not-so-grand age of 61, I learned I had stage-four cancer, which started in my lungs and has since metastasised to my brain and elsewhere. All this is the result of a defective gene – one that’s relatively rare – and the treatment plan isn’t terribly promising.
What have I learned in the months since?.
