Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econ.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is July third, twenty twenty six, and my guest is former US Senator and former president. Of the University of Florida, Ben Sass. Ben, welcome to Econ Talk. Good to be with you, my friend. I'm a listener and so it's an honor to be invited on.
Privilege to have you as a guest. Uh let's start Briefly with uh Thumbnail about your health situation. Uh Tell users what?
By your diagnosis and where you are right now. Because people care. Thank you. Um I I'm happy to spend time on whatever you want. Cancer is one of my least favorite topics, but we'll we'll uh we'll do the mix as you prefer. Um next week or at the end of this weekend, I will be six months and three weeks since being told I only had ninety days to live. Uh, so I'm on borrowed time. We all are in a sense. But um we're with uh three kids ranging from fifteen to twenty five every extra bonus week, month, uh, dinner, fourth of July to blow some stuff up for freedom. Uh feels like a pretty great blessing. So my wife and my shorthand is um After a terrible diagnosis, we'd say there are um currently two small bads and one pretty dang good. Um so I have pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to five other systems. Um I presented as far along stage four.
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