» On 9/14/2017 04:30:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Patti Smith on how she copes with death. 

"I have lost many people now in my life, and I know, because I've been through it so many times - friends, loved ones, my brother, my husband, my parents, that I know with each time that we're all going to have this moment - it's part of the human package, it's part of the privilege of being human, is that we have our moment when we have to say goodbye. It's nothing personal, we just all have to pass through it and I've just learned that all of these people that we lose, and this is what I mean by experience, they're all within us. They become part of our DNA. They become part of our blood."

VIDEO: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-11/patti-smith-talks-stagefright-at-bob-dylan-nobel-prize-ceremony/8434944

Nobel performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941PHEJHCwU