[00:00.23]All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.
[00:06.59]Sometimes it was as long as a year;
[00:08.44]sometimes as short as twenty-four hours,
[00:10.56]but always we were interested in discovering
[00:13.01]just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours.
[00:18.05]I speak, of course,
[00:19.23]of free men who have a choice,
[00:20.92]not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
[00:24.99]Such stories set up thinking,
[00:27.09]wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.
[00:30.60]What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings?