Jed Rothwell
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:18:28 -0700
George Holz wrote:
Article url: http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6075
Nice! Thanks for sharing that. I am glad to hear that Arthur's final illness was not too painful or prolonged.
When I went to dig out that photo of Arthur and his pet dinosaur . . . it made me weep for a while. It is no tragedy when a man dies after 90 years of the fullest life imaginable, but it never easy to lose a friend. And Arthur had THOUSANDS of friends.
I am pleased to see that he left instructions for a completely secular funeral. "Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral." He was a profoundly spiritual person in many ways, but an atheist to the core.
- Jed