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I consider this book to be a first such attempt.

But beyond this, I am determined to start a series of local centers where seniors can get education and encouragement about the aging process and about so many options that exist to find joy and contentment.

These centers will be similar in style and set up to college-level Career Centers where classes and resources and coaching abound to point the attendee in a positive direction in their lives. I know that this is needed, but I do not believe that they exist currently.

How will this unfold? Stay tuned.

And, secondly, I am determined to help people who fear the inevitability of death to cheerfully embrace this reality. Yes, I believe that there is joy, even in the experience of death.
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This latter view that we always have existed and always will, is dominant throughout Eastern religions.

The notion of eternality of existence is something that I find more probable (everything else in our world seems to reemerge after its “death” – why would we humans be the only exception?) than the Western concept.

So, by writing a play (movie, some day?) that follows a person who has died but is reborn, I am able, I hope to give some hope to those who are dying that this death is not the end, just a step through eternal life. My story gives the doctor a recovered memory that is crystal clear and allows him to tell others that it appears that death is just a crossing to a new chapter in a life.

Well, we’ll see if that story line catches on. But, I’m feeling quite satisfied with the writing effort because of the positive impact for people about this very fundamental question.

I want to impact my fellow man and this is just one way to do so and, I figure, if this allows even one person to relax and feel the joy in each day, now hoping that death is NOT the end, then in yet another way, my life (this time around) will have had a deeper and tangible

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