According to Osho, your calmness is not surrendering life but awakening to the truth that life and death are one process—two wings of the same bird. When death is seen as part of you, fear relaxes into acceptance, a silence of the one. From such acceptance, action becomes clearer and more alive; you can live and choose more consciously.
Feeling calm after hearing you have cancer can mean you’ve seen that death is part of life, so you can be present and live wisely now—not that you’ve quit.