Life After A Brain Injury: 'I'm Not Terrified Of Death Anymore'
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Life After A Brain Injury: 'I'm Not Terrified Of Death Anymore'

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Life After A Brain Injury: 'I'm Not Terrified Of Death Anymore' Enlarge this image toggle caption Maggie Smith/Courtesy of University of Southern California Maggie Smith/Courtesy of University of Southern California Tim Page is no longer afraid of death. Last year, the University of Southern California music and journalism professor — who was also a child prodigy filmmaker, Pulitzer-winning critic, person with Asperger's and father of three — collapsed at a train station. Sponsor Message Page, 61, has a new book out, Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings, which is the second volume of works he's edited by the American critic and composer Virgil Thomson. One of the only really good things that came out of this catastrophe for me was I spent almost all my life terrified of death, and I'm not terrified of death anymore.

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