The Meaning of Death

The Meaning of Death

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Was My Father Ready to Die?

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Michael Caleb Lester
May 26, 2024
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“You die the way you live.  I don’t want to be fearful.”
— William Shatner, on turning 93

Father and son

BACK IN THE 1990s, I was an editor at California Lawyer, a monthly magazine delivered to the 40,000 attorneys in the state.  I assigned and edited a piece looking at proposed assisted-dying legislation.  It was a political, legal article and I felt that…

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