From Fox News: Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska spoke candidly about his faith and confronting death during an emotional interview published Wednesday.
“Once we got diagnosed, we knew that the probability of a relatively near-term death is pretty high,” Sasse said during a nearly hour-long conversation with Michael Horton and Dan Bryant, a former assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, published on Sola Media’s YouTube page.
“And so, A, to live as Christ, to die is gain,” Sasse said.
“We felt amazingly blessed that Melissa, my wife, and I immediately were at peace about all this. But because one of our three kids is still at home — our girls are 24 and 22, and my son’s 14 — you felt like you had an obligation to try to fight a little bit.”
Sasse, 53, a Republican, served in the U.S. Senate from 2015 to 2023. He resigned from the Senate on January 8, 2023 to become president of the University of Florida. However, he then resigned from that position in July 31, 2024, after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.
But then Sasse announced in December that he had been diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, which he acknowledged is literally a death sentence.
In the interview released this week, Sasse revealed that not only does he have pancreatic cancer, but he has tumors that have grown in and around his spinal column, and throughout his torso. He said doctors have told him there’s no point in even during surgery, because the tumors are everywhere.
He explained that he was fortunate to get into an aggressive clinical trial program at M.D. Anderson in Houston, but the goal in doing so is just to help him to hopefully survive for another year, to have more time with his young son. He indicated his cancer is so bad, he has literally been given a death sentence.
Sasse bravely noted that we’re all going to die sometime, but he is now aware his life will end sooner than expected.
In the emotional and sobering discussion, filmed on February 7, he discussed his faith in God, what eternity will be like, and how meaningless and temporary everything in this life really is.
WATCH the full interview below.
Sasse also sat for an interview with the Hoover Institution on February 9, which was released on Tuesday of this week.
In the interview, he shared his story with host Peter Robinson and spoke about mortality, faith, family, ambitions, forgiveness, prayer, redeeming the time, and what really matters.
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