His assisted suicide in Switzerland last year “had to appear premature,” he wrote in a final note to friends and family; after all, the point was to end his life before debility and suffering set in. At ninety years of age, an excellent, accomplished, and long run behind him, the time was right. A man whose entire work revolved around decisions, made his.
He’s only in the news today because he asked that his manner of death be kept quiet for awhile. The people who loved him obliged. It was only just revealed.
I discovered after making the decision that I am not afraid of not existing, and that I think of death as going to sleep and not waking up.