No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler


Life is finite. We live . . . and then we die. There is no escaping this very human reality. We just don't think about it much. We don't want to think about it. 

Until we have to. 

Kate Bowler tells her story of facing death in No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear.

She begins with her colon cancer diagnosis in her mid-thirties, when her son is only a few months old, and the doctors tell her she is terminal. When they tell she has a small chance of survival, but survival just means an extra two years. 

How does she make the most of this? How does she plan for the future, a future that probably doesn't include her? How does she fight for more? 

This is Bowler's story of fighting for survival and thinking about what it means to be human, with all the joys . . . and disappointments. And Bowler is a fantastic storyteller who shares what she learns from facing death. 

We all need to think about, at least some of the time, because not a one of us will live here on earth forever, and Bowler's vulnerability allows us to a glimpse of what this entails. There really is no cure to being human.

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