Marching Forward: Finding Meaning to Life in the Face of Death

A philosopher with brain cancer and a scientist who studies brain parasites walk into a coffee shop and try to figure out the meaning of it all.

By Adam Hayden and Bill Sullivan

The alarm goes off, and Adam Hayden rises.

With his wife Whitney, they dress their three boys, stir their oatmeal, and plan how to get one to soccer and another to art class. They are working to create a childhood for the kids that resembles normalcy.

But it isn’t.