No one knows how much time you have on this earth. Don't let any doctor try and tell you that. You fight and  you are able to get joy every day and don't let this scary disease take away all the good things you can have every day,  others never knew how terrible it is to know I have limited time,just like death sentence. do not want to die but there is no response to my treatments.
Everybody ultimately wants to be happy and live peacefully. how we make best of life. understanding generates love for others and love generates constructive energy to serve others without seeking any return.
Purpose of life is to attain everlasting love,peace and joy.supreme state ---- is possible only when we abandon all of our selfish desires and becomes free from the feeling of I and me. one who has complete faith in god,  devoted and then all of impurities  and sins are completely destroyed, evils of attachments  attain supreme state.
Practice and with practice we come are able to enjoy supreme state.
Do self purification and self transformation. Freedom from fear anger and miseries