"Fifty years of studying philosophy has finally paid off!"
He told his son when his son wondered how he could handle dying so well.
He lived every day until he died instead of griping and moaning, and he shared his books and music with his friends who came for a last visit feeling dread and left with their gifts of knowledge and music feeling fine.
Bob's gift of knowing how to live was shared with us and something of this sharing, I hope, gets across in this little work in which I remember a dear friend who shared so much with me.