My friend and fellow student, Alan Finder, died in 2019 at the age of 67 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Alan was a year younger than me but he seemed wiser. We prayed and sang together on Friday nights at Temple Shir Tikvah in Winchester MA. We studied Torah and laughed together on Saturday mornings. Alan generously shared his final journey with our community and showed us how it is done with grace, humor and great courage. He was much loved and will always be greatly missed.
Alan rode a bicycle too and although we never rode together while he was alive, I'll ride the 89 miles from Wellesley to Bourne with Alan on my mind. Thank you for reading this.
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I am choosing to direct the money donated to my PMC ride into Dana-Farber's general donation fund rather than a specific research fund.
Funding a cure for a specific cancer is important and exciting but until that cancer is cured, patients have other equally important quality of life needs. This is especially true for pancreatic cancer where the survival rate is so low. I feel it is very worthwhile to help fund some of these non-research needs at Dana-Farber and I've decided that their executive team is best suited to allocate our donations among their 17 interrelated departments.
My friend and fellow student, Alan Finder, died in 2019 at the age of 67 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Alan was a year younger than me but he seemed wiser. We prayed and sang together on Friday nights at Temple Shir Tikvah in Winchester MA. We studied Torah and laughed together on Saturday mornings. Alan generously shared his final journey with our community and showed us how it is done with grace, humor and great courage. He was much loved and will always be greatly missed.
Alan rode a bicycle too and although we never rode together while he was alive, I'll ride the 89 miles from Wellesley to Bourne with Alan on my mind. Thank you for reading this.
Click on the Gallery tab above to see pictures of Alan
I am choosing to direct the money donated to my PMC ride into Dana-Farber's general donation fund rather than a specific research fund.
Funding a cure for a specific cancer is important and exciting but until that cancer is cured, patients have other equally important quality of life needs. This is especially true for pancreatic cancer where the survival rate is so low. I feel it is very worthwhile to help fund some of these non-research needs at Dana-Farber and I've decided that their executive team is best suited to allocate our donations among their 17 interrelated departments.
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