You could say that Stamatis Moraitis forgot to die. The Greek war
veteran was diagnosed by 9 different American doctors with lung cancer
in 1976. He was given 6 months to live and was encouraged to pursue
aggressive cancer treatment. He declined and instead moved back to his
native land of Ikaria. Then something incredible happened.
At
first, he spent his days in bed, as his mother and wife tended to him.
He reconnected with his faith. On Sunday mornings, he hobbled up the
hill to a tiny Greek Orthodox chapel where his grandfather once served
as a priest. When his childhood friends discovered that he had moved
back, they started showing up every afternoon. They’d talk for hours, an
activity that invariably involved a bottle or two of locally produced
wine. I might as well die happy, he thought.
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