Jim Kiick died this weekend. He was a football player for the Dolphins in the 70s. He had dementia and died in a nursing home. The obit I read in the NYT suggested he also had coronavirus. The obit had a couple of pictures from his time in the NFL - young, vigorous (a bit ridiculous with a 70s porn stache and side burns). I wondered, looking at those photos of a virile man, a Super Bowl champion, a cover boy for Sports Illustrated, what would happen if you could go back in time and tell him he would die such an ignoble death, his brain addled, his physical being tended to by care givers, unable to be with his family when he died. I got really depressed.
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