Name: 【TED】Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death (Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death)
Uploaded: 2017-07-26T19:00:07.000Z
Duration: 15 min 25 s
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Adverbs of degree

It was a city so long ago that it was still called

I sat down next to a stout, middle-aged man

and he turned out to be a Fulbright scholar,

young foreign correspondent that I was then.

You told me you were a Fulbright scholar."

"Well, how long would you have talked to me

"Travel the world and have lots of kids."

And what an alive man Terence Bryan Foley

he had once been a San Francisco cable car operator,

and we did travel the country, and the world,

that without saying a word to each other,

And for years, it seemed like we were succeeding.

What'd he say? He said what surgeons always say:

Then there was a setback when the pathologists

with a diagnosis that was almost universally fatal

And meanwhile, I'm burying myself in the Internet

and with it comes another death sentence,

So we try another treatment, aggressive, nasty.

This time, there's new treatments on the horizon.

They're going to attack the cancer in new ways.

So he enters a clinical trial, and it works.

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【TED】Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death (Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death)

aggressive

jerk

general

conquer