# How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying

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Podcast: [Interesting Times with Ross Douthat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-times-with-ross-douthat-440457)
Published: 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opinion/ben-sasse-on-how-to-live-while-dying.html
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## Resource

How would you live if you knew when you were going to die? I sat down with the former Republican senator Ben Sasse to hear how he is facing his own mortality after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis. For Sasse, cancer brings pain, but also clarity, sharpening his focus on the state of our politics, his wife and three children, and the God he expects to shortly meet.

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