by Chris Bodenner
From a September 2011 essay by the great film critic:
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.
(Photo: Film critic Roger Ebert attends the 2002 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California on March 23, 2002. By Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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