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Ray passed from his world on May 4th just days before his 78th birthday. He was an essentially gentle soul, a practising Buddhist who once said he had been preparing his whole life for his death.
Ray’s early years sensitized him to death at a very young age. He was five years old when his sister died, 16 when his father died, and 32 when his last remaining sibling died tragically...