Lovely appreciation at Deadline Hollywood -
It is not just the way Ebert watched that we remember with fondness and gratitude now, but the way he lived even in those incredibly tough final years where he set his finest example of courage. As he wrote about his mortality in that 2011 memoir, “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”.
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It is not just the way Ebert watched that we remember with fondness and gratitude now, but the way he lived even in those incredibly tough final years where he set his finest example of courage. As he wrote about his mortality in that 2011 memoir, “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”.
Thumbs up Roger for a life well-lived.