I Have Only a Few Weeks Left to Live: Charles Krauthammer

‘This Is the Final Verdict. My Fight Is Over.’ Political Commentator Charles Krauthammer Has Terminal Cancer

Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator Charles Krauthammer, the longtime columnist for The Washington Post revealed he has terminal cancer and only weeks left to live said in a statement published on the newspaper’s website on Friday that he is battling cancer and has “only a few weeks left to live.”

Mr. Krauthammer has been absent from The Post, where he began writing columns in 1984, since August, when he had a cancerous tumor surgically removed.

The 68-year-old, who was a regular contributor to TIME in the 1990s and 2000s, wrote in a column in the Washington Post Friday that he was nearing the end of a battle with abdominal cancer.

“There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly,” Krauthammer wrote. “My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.”

“I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny,” he wrote.

He concluded by saying that he had no regrets.

In a separate piece titled “Fridays without Charles” — a reference to the timing of Mr. Krauthammer’s weekly columns — that was published concurrently, the newspaper’s editorial board praised him for writing with “breathtaking range and intelligence and integrity.”

“We know we speak for many of you when we say that nothing and no one can replace him,” the board wrote. “Charles wrote for the right reasons.”

In a statement, Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of Fox News, praised Mr. Krauthammer as an “inspiration for all of us at Fox News.”

“His always principled stand on the most important issues of our time has been a guiding star in an often turbulent world, a world that has too many superficial thinkers vulnerable to the ebb and flow of fashion, and a world that, unfortunately, has only one Charles Krauthammer. His words, his ideas, his dignity and his integrity will resonate within our society and within me for many, many years to come,” Murdoch said.

Charles Krauthammer revealed he has terminal cancer. He has only weeks left to live said in a statement published on the newspaper’s website on Friday. He also added that he  is battling cancer and has “only a few weeks left to live.”

Mr. Krauthammer has been absent from The Post. From that time he began writing columns in 1984, since August, when he had a cancerous tumor surgically removed.

Despite “a cascade of secondary complications,” Mr. Krauthammer, 68, was preparing to return to writing, but recent tests found that cancer had aggressively returned, he said in the short statement.

“There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly,” Krauthammer wrote. “My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.”

Mr. Krauthammer, thanked his doctors, caregivers, friends, employers, colleagues, readers, and viewers. And he sang the virtues of “honest debate and rigorous argument.”

“I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny,” he wrote.

In a separate piece titled “Fridays without Charles” — a reference to the timing of Mr. Krauthammer’s weekly columns — that was published concurrently, the newspaper’s editorial board praised him for writing with “breathtaking range and intelligence and integrity.”

“We know we speak for many of you when we say that nothing and no one can replace him,” the board wrote. “Charles wrote for the right reasons.”
In a statement, Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of Fox News, praised Mr. Krauthammer as an “inspiration for all of us at Fox News.”

“His always principled stand on the most important issues of our time has been a guiding star in an often turbulent world, a world that has too many superficial thinkers vulnerable to the ebb and flow of fashion, and a world that, unfortunately, has only one Charles Krauthammer. His words, his ideas, his dignity and his integrity will resonate within our society and within me for many, many years to come,” Murdoch said.

A statement from Rupert Murdoch on Charles Krauthammer's cancer diagnosis. https://t.co/DvQty021V0 pic.twitter.com/QK4xL8jpHe

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 8, 2018

Mr. Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987 for his columns on domestic issues.

Before his career in writing, Mr. Krauthammer graduated from Harvard Medical School and practiced for three years as a psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He was a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980. He helped to “direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter administration,” according to his Washington Post biography.

Krauthammer was a longtime Fox News columnist and commentator. He appeared regularly on Special Report with Bret Baier. Though he has been missing from the air for the past ten months during his cancer treatment. He thanked his colleagues and viewers for their support throughout his career.

Krauthammer spent much of his early career in journalism at the Washington Post, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in a commentary in 1987. He originally trained as a psychiatrist, graduating from Harvard Medical School. He later took jobs in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and with Vice President Walter Mondale.

Mr. Krauthammer was born in New York City. Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch released a statement praising Krauthammer and his work.

“It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.” he wrote.

Mr. Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987 for his columns on domestic issues.

Before his career in writing, Mr. Krauthammer graduated from Harvard Medical School and practiced for three years as a psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital..

Mr. Krauthammer was born in New York City.

Krauthammer spent much of his early career in journalism at the Washington Post, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in a commentary in 1987. He originally trained as a psychiatrist, graduating from Harvard Medical School. He later took jobs in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and with Vice President Walter Mondale.

Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch released a statement praising Krauthammer and his work.

Source:  nytimes.com, time.com

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