Tag: death

Death and Dying, and Two Tears

Monday, January 30, 2017 at 1pm
By John Friedman

Maxine Friedman died at 10:59 a.m. Central Time on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. That was a little more than a month after she turned on her hospice care and about three hours after I dashed off a short piece about how, all of a sudden, she seemed determined to exit […]

Using the California Statutory Will

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 1pm
By John Friedman

No part of financial planning flummoxes and bedevils people as much as estate planning. It makes the powerful weak and the merely-average absolutely-incapable. It makes proactive folks sheepishly cower, waiting . . . waiting . . . . . . waiting. And it makes high-output folks stare vacantly into space […]

The Last Act of Love

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 7pm
By John Friedman

Tom Friedman died at 3:43 p.m. today, Central Time. A bit later Nurse Ellen said, “See, I told ya. He waited until all four of you were here. It was his last act of love.” *  *  * We have, all of us, embedded deep within our biological self, a […]

A Tale of Different Deaths

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 2pm
By John Friedman

Death hovers nearby always, and in all ways. The body keeps working, proving over and over again that it is nearly always impervious to perturbation, until it doesn’t, and then it simply let’s go — let’s go of the spark, acquiesces into hardness, entropies its perhaps-not-so-merry way toward the cold: […]