[ WP ] your wife is four months pregnant and your terminal illness will take you in less then two months . Write a letter to your unborn child .

To my unborn child, 
 
 I have my face on your mother's stomach and I just felt your little kick. This is the fourth time I've felt you and I treasure each and every moment. It breaks my 
 heart that this is as close as I will ever get to you. Let me tell you a little bit about my self in these last moments I have with you and your mother. My name is Viktor Frankl and I would have been 37 this April. I'm the head of the neurology department 
 at Rothschild Hospital. I grew up in Hurpen, a sleepy little village on the outskirts of Vienna. I met your mother when we were both studying at the 
 University of Vienna. I still remember that day. She was waiting in the coffee line and she wore a black dress with a bright red scarf. She turned around and caught 
 me staring. I panicked and all i managed to get out was `` I like scarfs''. She quickly turned around and pretended not to see me. But I had seen her and I was enchanted. 
 All that now seem like a life time ago, a happier time. My child, I have so many things I want to say to you, so many lessons I want to teach you, 
 so many laughs I want to share with you, so many, so many. But I have no time. They will come for me tonight. That, I have no control over. 
 They will come tonight and take me away, for I have a terminal illness. I have been diagnosed by the NAZIs and I have no choice but to accept their treatment. 
 It tears at my soul that I will 
 not see you come into the world or that I will never see your mother's face again, but if I can leave you with one gift it is this. Be proud of your heritage son. 
 Do n't believe the lies spread by the NAZIs. One day their darkness will end and spring will arrive again. You must survive until then. Life will seem meaningless and arbitrarily cruel. You must endure, for life's meaning is the one 
 that you give to it. Be strong for your mother, be strong for me but most importantly, be strong for yourself. 
 
 I will always love you, this life or the next. 
 
 Your father, 
 
 Viktor Frankl 

