Good read, but there's so much more to the story. His book "What do you care what other people think" is a homage to Arlene, partly because Feynman made the fa

Good read, but there's so much more to the story. His book "What do you care what other people think" is a homage to Arlene, partly because Feynman made the fatal mistake of trusting the doctor's judgement to disregard the blatantly obvious diagnosis. He wrote about his experience in much more detail here: Part 1: http://i.imgur.com/CSNop.png http://i.imgur.com/CSNop.png Part 2: http://i.imgur.com/7mDTW.png http://i.imgur.com/7mDTW.png He was depressed for a while but eventually his love for physics helped him recover. Feynman is the most logical and happiest human I have ever seen. Hans Bethe once said, "Feynman depressed is just a little more cheerful then any other person when he is exuberant." Feynman's magnificent exuberance and puzzle solving enthusiasm remained up until his last days, where his coworker Christopher Sykes remarked "Look at this man. He faces the abyss. He doesn't know whether he is going to live through this week. But he was consumed by it, and he worked on it all day long...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h11m33s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h11m33s A few days before his second operation, Feynman sang a bongos song about orange juice, an amusing take of Linus Pauling's advice to possibly cure his cancer. Just look at his smile at the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8 I would also like to add that on Feynman's last days at the hospital, his last words to his artist friend Jirayr was "Don't worry about anything, go out and have a good time!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h32m15s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h32m15s Anyone who thinks of Feynman as a cold-hearted scientist is incredibly mistaken.