WWU professor's blog addressed how to live with incurable cancer

The beginning of the end of Ethan Remmel's life began just over a year ago with an ache in his abdomen.

He didn't think much of it at the time. After all, he was fit, he ate well and he was only 40 years old. But the pain worsened, so he went to a doctor. Later, after a colonoscopy, he got the word.