Mr. Kujau, how long have you known about your serious illness? I've had cancer since the early 1980s, back then it was of the larynx. Now it runs one floor down on the stomach. I actually never stopped thinking about this disease, even if the doctors told me about healing and the chances, they were all lies. Once a cancer, always a cancer. There is no escaping this disease, we know too little about that.

Are you afraid of death? No, only of the pain. I hope that when the time comes, it will be quick and painless.

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