Well, shit.

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Author Robert Jordan diagnosed with amyloidosis, which has an untreated life expectancy of about a year, or a median life expectancy of 4 years with treatment."

Via Metafilter.

Dude, finish the damn series already. If you keel over before it's done, I'm going to do something nasty on your grave. And I rather expect that I'll be standing in line for the priviledge.

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So when I said "The dude is going to die before he finishes the bloody series!" I did not intend that to be a prophetic statement.

Though I am still really miffed that he published a PREQUEL before he bothered to finish the thing! Gah. So, so not touching the books again until the thing is done.