If you really want to go, the dying is the easy part. It’s the living that’s hard. That shit takes a lifetime. And it will test you every step of the way.

The end of life is not tragic like the end of love.

Cato, once it was clear that Caesar was the inevitable victor, killed himself at the town of Utica on the coast of what is now Tunisia in the most gory way imaginable. According to his biographer, writing 150 years later, he stabbed himself with his sword but survived the gash. Despite attempts by friends and family to save him, he pushed away the

There is one final document. On April 23, 1518, eight days after his sixty-seventh birthday, Leonardo had his last will and testament drawn up by a notary in Amboise, witnessed, and signed. He had been ill, and like a good son of a notary he began getting his affairs in order. It begins, “Be it known to all persons, present and to come, that at the