Suggestions On Dying

Steve Russell
10 min readAug 31, 2019
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Like most folks, I did not think much about the end of my life,

but if I had there are big issues that I’m not sure I could have finessed. The main one it’s hard to escape is the second childhood.

The fact is you experience helplessness again and you become more and more dependent on others as you age. The myth is that your volition is gone and it’s inevitable that you will be the done to rather than…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)