{"id":10496,"date":"2015-12-28T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2020-04-26T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:45:02","slug":"they-cannot-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/they-cannot-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"the genetic and neural fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from 2015&#8217;s (!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/12\/16\/magazine\/the-lives-they-lived.html?ref=todayspaper#id-567442abdc804c0001000021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;the lives they lived&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate ll-init ll-loaded alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/12\/27\/magazine\/27TLTL-illustrations-ss-slide-T9S7\/27TLTL-illustrations-ss-slide-T9S7-master180.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"http:\/\/i1.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/12\/27\/magazine\/27TLTL-illustrations-ss-slide-T9S7\/27TLTL-illustrations-ss-slide-T9S7-jumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Oliver Sacks\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Illustration by Stuart Patience. Source photo: Chris McGrath\/Getty Images.\" data-ratio=\"1.199063231850117\" data-pattern=\"{{size}}\" 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\/>After learning that he had terminal cancer early this year, <strong>Oliver Sacks (b. 1933)<\/strong>, a neurologist and the author of books like \u2018\u2018Awakenings\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2018An Anthropologist on Mars,\u2019\u2019 published an essay about it in The Times. \u2018\u2018When people die, they cannot be replaced,\u2019\u2019 he wrote. \u2018\u2018They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate \u2014 the genetic and neural fate \u2014 of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from 2015&#8217;s (!) &#8220;the lives they lived&#8221;: After learning that he had terminal cancer early this year, Oliver Sacks (b. 1933), a neurologist and the author of books like \u2018\u2018Awakenings\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2018An Anthropologist on Mars,\u2019\u2019 published an essay about it in The Times. \u2018\u2018When people die, they cannot be replaced,\u2019\u2019 he wrote. \u2018\u2018They leave holes 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