Michael Knowles

He's on a drug that has shrunk his tumors.

It's given him maybe a couple or a few more months.

But he's now bleeding from everywhere.

His skin can't really heal itself at all.

And so he has a very bloodied face.

He has, I think one can't escape but see it, a face that resembles Christ in the Passion.

And here he is discussing...

All of this, his faith and his death, was with Ross Douthat.

You should watch the whole interview.

He gets Ross choked up by the end of it.

Has a public figure

died in a more graceful and magnanimous way in our lifetimes.

Some examples come to mind.

Scott Adams just died in a way that was stoical.

And he did say, he said, I've accepted Jesus, though he said, I don't want to talk about it.

He had a very stoical death, which was very admirable in many ways.

Of course, Stoicism differs from Christianity in as much as Stoicism seeks to detach and to minimize suffering as a way to make it through the waves and vicissitudes of this world.

Christianity adds a little something to that, which is hopefulness.

which is to say there's something to come and I'll dance on my way to the Coliseum, which Sass, I think, is demonstrating.

Norm Macdonald comes to mind.