Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said Tuesday that he has been terminally diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer that metastasized. Sasse, 53, served two terms in the Senate representing Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He resigned from Congress in 2023 to become the president of the University of Florida. He left that role in 2024. “Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do," he wrote on X. In his post, he discussed his Christian faith as he faces the diagnosis, his children’s recent accomplishments, and his relationship with his wife, whom he said he has “grown even closer” to since stepping away from public life last year. “I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight,” he wrote. “One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived."
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