EVENTUALLY he returns to a peninsula—perhaps it is spacious and calm, perhaps it is not. His age is above average: 86 years. It’s been a long life, out of which millions of stories can be told. Money, power, politics, strategies, wife, family, children and grandchildren. He had it all: sorrow, but generally joy; tight spots, but more often, opportunities.

Death is eventually the time when memories are like old films played back. We are rem