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Dr. Baruch "B" HaLevi is a Logotherapist, Enneagram teacher, CEO of Defiant Spirit Counseling and Corporate Training, and co-founder of The Viktor Frankl Meaning Academy. Learn more at www.defiantspirit.org
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My Friend Wally Chose to Die. Here’s How He Taught Me to Choose to Live. (opens the original)
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He Thanked His Dementia. What’s Your Excuse? (opens the original)
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Wally broke that.Last time I wrote about him, it was his choice to die on his own terms before the disease made that choice for him. We didn’t agree on it. I told him what I tell every man I sit with: I don’t tell another man what to do with his life, and I’m not going to start telling him what to do with his death. That conversation was one of the hardest and most honest I’ve had in years.I figured that was the whole story with Wally.Then he did something I wasn’t ready for. He thanked the deme
A Man. Dementia. A Choice: Wally And The Dance of His Life And Death (opens the original)
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July 21, 2026Wally is not afraid of death. He is afraid of staying.He is entering late-stage dementia, and he can already feel the edges of himself going soft. So he has decided he would rather leave while he is still Wally than remain in a body that has forgotten his own name. He wants to die by his own hand before the disease takes the one thing he believes makes him a man: the ability to choose for himself.Wally is not my client. He came to my book launch. We got to talking, and that talk bec
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