Dave Evans

Thank you.

Yes.

But, you know, it's a very steep learning curve.

You know, John O'Donohue, the old Celtic mystic, would say that marrying another person is moving to a foreign country.

Whole new culture, whole new language.

Or my friend Jerry's sister would say, philosophy prof, there are no second marriages.

There are only first marriages the second time around.

So I'm doing the first marriage the third time around.

And the learning curve is steep, which by the way is terrific.

But this death thing, once you get it, but it's going around.

It's becoming extremely popular.

You know, it was popular earlier and now it's popular later, but still very popular.

Almost everybody's into it.

And once you really get your hands around your finitude, and burying a couple of people will help you do that, it gets you more intimate with it.

So it's very freeing.

What have I got?

You know, 12 years, 15 years?

And it's very clear to me that my productivity –

is going to plummet after my death.

I mean, it's just going to fall.