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EG: Okay, here we go. When you look back over your life, of all of the wonderful things that you have done, and the things that you've been involved in, what seems most important to you?

FS: Most important in what area?

EG: I don't know. What area would you pick as what you're most proud of? That's a tough question, huh?

FS: Well, you lead me into my religious belief.

EG: Okay.

FS: There was in Rome, a couple thousand years ago, a very erudite Roman, named Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius became emperor, but the important thing in my opinion is what he said. Marcus Aurelius said, "It is no more possible for something to become nothing, than for nothing to become something." In other words, 'what is, will be.' And I believe that, and I believe chemistry and physics bears it out. You can change things, but you can't completely destroy them. Water, for example, can be mist. It can be ice. It can be H2O, but it's always H2O. And so I feel that those of my family -- my wife, my oldest son, an infant daughter -- who are on the other side, are waiting for me to join them. And I rather look forward. I don't want to set a date. I don't want to play God. But I also will not resist. I'll tell my doctor, "Don't do anything to keep me alive when it's time for me to go." And I look forward to that reunion. Now I've forgotten what the question was.

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