Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
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Roger Ebert
Film critic
United States · 1942–2013
Arts and letters
About
Film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 and the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Treated for thyroid and salivary gland cancer from 2002, he lost his lower jaw and the ability to speak, eat and drink in 2006, and turned his journal at rogerebert.com into the most widely read thing he wrote. He continued reviewing until two days before his death in April 2013.
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