Fear is the mind killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings obliteration, I will face my fear. He had known for some time that he had pancreatic cancer, an almost invariably fatal, rapidly spreading form of that fearsome disease. As a life-long student of the psychology of C. G. Jung, he also knew that death is an inexorable part of the structure of life. He well realized that both life and death are Jungian polarities. Frank had learned that secret decades ago, and I like to think that he approached his end without fear, faced it with composure.