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Originally Posted by sterlingice
Not trying to speak ill of the dead - just talking about the story here. It's kindof interesting but also a little bit of a letdown. I always hope to find some great insights or some bits of wisdom, but this didn't have a whole lot. I'm happy for him, in an abstract sense, as he seems to have a life well lived, full of hedonistic pleasure and a touch of meaning. But this reads more like an obituary combined with a CV. I was just hoping for more wisdom - the part about the intensity of life gave my wife and I some food for thought for a few minutes - but, generally, it came down to "on all those matters, no insights, no thunderbolts of discovery. I remai**n as ignorant as ever", which is a little disappointing. Then again, it's not like we get magic powers or insight right before we die.
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It was written shortly after he found out he was dying, not right before he died. That might have something to do with the lack of retrospective wisdom he might have gained. I believe he wrote it in July 2021 and he died a couple days ago.
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