As a devoted Manchester United fan, I needed to watch the documentary. The narrative is centered around the need to preserve his memory after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2018. His fear was that he would lose all of his recollections of the past. What especially resonated with me was his experience at the point that the aneurysm occurred. His perception of the world simply stopped with no awareness of anything until he regained consciousness a few days later: no dreaming, no semi-awake state, no nothing. So had he died, it would have all just ended then. For me it sounded like a feeling similar to being under general anesthesia when I had a colonoscopy recently. I just dropped off the side of a cliff and then woke up in recovery. There was nothing in between. I guess it is a peaceful way to go when it happens. The filmmakers did an amazing job of digging up archival footage for the documentary, even finding footage of young Alex marching during the Glasgow apprentice strike in 1960.
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