I’m No Longer Afraid of Dying After Losing My Wife, and Most of My Closest Friends and Relatives

But I have far too much to live for and will take my sweet time thriving; thank you very much.

Photo by Eyasu Etsub; Unsplash

This will be the last of them.

It’s time for me to move forward in my writing as I have in my life.

After spending the greater part of a year and a half posting on Medium and social media about the loss of my beloved wife, Lorie Girsh-Eisenberg — an exercise in both self-therapy and helping others deal with their own grief — I have elected to conclude that process and turn my pen back to books and screenplays.

A film in which I have an Executive Producer credit wraps in five days at the time of this writing. A book I’ve been working on since Lorie’s passing is finally near completion.

I have become functional again. I have become productive again.

I am in love again.

It’s time... but at 61 and no longer afraid of the words The End, I prefer to forward this latest stage of my life by formally closing what I expect to be its penultimate chapter.

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the…