To the Editor:

I have just returned from an around-the-world cruise. I traveled across the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Mediterranean oceans through the Panama and Suez canals to visit Central America, South America, the islands of the South Pacific, the countries of the Pacific Rim, the Middle East and Southern Europe.

This trip was motivated by the need to examine my past to provide the foundation for a plan for my future exit from life as we know it.

May 13, 2015