Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse introduced Tuesday that he has been identified with stage 4 pancreatic most cancers.
The previous two-term senator revealed in a prolonged notice posted to social media that he realized in regards to the illness final week.
“It is a robust notice to write down, however since a bunch of you’ve gotten began to suspect one thing, I am going to minimize to the chase: Final week I used to be identified with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic most cancers, and am gonna die,” Sasse started. “Superior pancreatic is nasty stuff; it is a loss of life sentence. However I already had a loss of life sentence earlier than final week, too — all of us do.”
“I’ve bought much less time than I might desire. That is laborious for somebody wired to work and construct, however more durable nonetheless as a husband and a dad,” he continued, including that he was not “happening with no struggle.”
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It is a robust notice to write down, however since a bunch of you’ve gotten began to suspect one thing, I’ll minimize to the chase: Final week I used to be identified with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic most cancers, and am gonna die.
Superior pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a loss of life sentence.…
— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) December 23, 2025
The 53-year-old identified that discovering out the information throughout Introduction is permitting him to concentrate on what is actually vital.
“As a Christian, the weeks operating as much as Christmas are a time to orient our hearts towards the hope of what is to return,” Sasse expressed. “…we hope in an actual Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at an actual time, in an actual place. However the everlasting metropolis — with foundations and with out most cancers — is just not but.”
He added, “Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what is to return would not boring the ache of present sufferings. Nevertheless it does put it in eternity’s perspective: ‘After we’ve been there 10,000 years…We have no much less days to sing God’s reward.’
Sasse resigned from the Senate in January 2023 to take a place because the president of the College of Florida.
Please pray for the previous senator and his household.
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