Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua and today we're going to focus on living a meaningful life.

And we're going to do it in the context of speaking about death.

We'll come up early this morning and got the news that a friend of mine, someone I've

known my entire life, passed away this morning, early this morning, due to COVID, and kind

of the normal complications from COVID, been in the hospital for the last few weeks, been

an ventilator for a couple of weeks, and things took a turn, you know, just had lead to

climbing, and he passed away early this morning, wasn't entirely unexpected, for reasons

that I'll elaborate on in just a moment.

And so I've been thinking a lot about his death this morning, and it's something that

is impactful for me personally, although probably not in the way that you would expect.

And I'll share with you why his death is so impactful to me, and I'll share with you

why in the context of talking about money and living a life well, the context of financial

planning, because it's appropriate and it's part of even what his life means to me.

And so I want to share this with you as a way of even just for me, articulating some

things that I have thought about for many years.

My friend's death this morning is quite painful to me, but not in the ways that you might

imagine.

He was in his mid to late 60s, which is not particularly young, right?

It wasn't such a tragic thing like when you go to the death of a 10-year-old or something

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