I can't imagine how I would comport myself if I knew, to the minute, when I would die. Most of us get oh, maybe four or five seconds' warning. What to do?
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore (whose mom lived just down the street from us in Milwaukie!) wrote -- pages and pages of letters every day to his girlfriend Nicole. Additionally, he became a media celebrity as the first criminal to be executed in more than ten years. Additionally, he wanted the state of Utah to carry out the sentence, refusing chance after chance at a sentence of life in prison.
This is not only Gilmore's story, but the story of all the people who were around him, who used him and were used by him. What makes it even more than just another read is that -- aside from probable and expected lapses -- it's true. Read this if you get a chance at all and you won't be unaffected.