Richard Feynman on accepting impending mortality


	Richard Feynman on accepting impending mortality

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5-16-2008 12:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/900242e8-35c8-4e5d-ad50-b82ea28ad0ab/B5CAE432-22B2-4142-BC69-F4B158C21B61/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php" href="http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.longnow.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php"><P>He must have noticed my 
  mood, because he suddenly stopped the story and asked, "Hey, what's the matter?" 
</P><P> I hesitated. "I'm sad because you're going to die." 
</P><P> "Yeah," he sighed, "that bugs me sometimes too. But not so much as you think." 
  And after a few more steps, "When you get as old as I am, you start to realize 
  that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway." 
</P><P> We walked along in silence for a few minutes. Then we came to a place where 
  another trail crossed and Richard stopped to look around at the surroundings. 
  Suddenly a grin lit up his face. "Hey," he said, all trace of sadness forgotten, 
  "I bet I can show you a better way home." 
</P><P><DIV> And so he did.</DIV></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5CAE432-22B2-4142-BC69-F4B158C21B61/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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