Not everyone gets hit with such a question, but, as someone who has had unparalleled experiences with death, dying, and euthanasia; I can tell you that such a question has never been posed to me before by anyone who has interviewed me, over the past fourteen years.

It is a very good question, indeed, with no simple answer. As I thought about the question, I realized that I could not provide a simple answer. There are many ways to define death, but I placed my answers on four different levels: a personal level, a family level, a social level, and a medical level.

Death on a personal level, the individual level, the mortal level.

Personally, I know my death will be nothing more than the process of divesting my long devoted immortal soul from my withered and tired temporal body; it is, after all, the only means of setting free my indomitable soul to take up residence in the next world.

I look forward to my own death in that I will finally be free from the insanity of this dark planet I live on, where evil grinds against good and the blind lead the blind. It is the process of death, in this country, that concerns me and it should concern you, as well.

Ask yourself:  Will I die in a STATE run, lock down, profit mongering, institutionalized facility, where I will have no liberty to act upon my own will or freedom to control and assert my wishes and desires regarding my very own life and final act on earth?

Why should someone even have to pose such a question?

When someone suffers from a terminal illness, death can be a process that is long, drawn out, and agonizing for not just the individual, but for the family, as well. Will speak of that later.

Last month, while I was taking a break from the strenuous activity of working on several projects, I was contacted  by a member of the theatrical group at Western Michigan University.

Working under the tutelage of a professional theater group out of New York City (Tectonic Theater Project), Western Michigan University will be putting together a socially significant production on the topic of Death, Dying, & Euthanasia, for the people of Kalamazoo.

I was interviewed and would like to share some of that interview with you. The first question posed is one of particular interest to me:  How do you define death?

I found the question to be provocative in the true sense of the word, stimulating!

The way people define death says more about the individual than the actual final curtain and the final bow we make before the curtain drops, and, I found that there was no simple answer to the complex question.

I will share my answer with you tomorrow!

Sorry I haven’t been with you for a while, been having severe trouble with my eyes.

I do see that the world outside my door is still a path of madness and contention. I must admit to you that the plight of Daniel Hauser and his family literally made me sick, the lack of freedom in this country has turned us into slaves to medical tyranny.

Enough said for now.

HBO is releasing a bio on Dr. Kevorkian in the spring of 2010, which I do not believe will do him justice from what I know about the production; however, it may be enough to spawn another movie offer for My Son, My Sorrow.

I will keep the sight up for another year and talk with you again.