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Obituary by Dr Raj Mehta:
U.G. Krishnamurti, lovingly called UG by his friends
and admirers all over the world, is no more. The end
came on March 22, 2007 at 2.30 pm in an apartment
built for him by his friends Lucia, Anita and Giovanni
in their villa in Vallecrosia, Italy. As per UG?s
advice, with no rituals or funeral rites, the
cremation was carried out the next day at 2.45 pm, in
Vallecrosia, Italy. He was eighty-nine years old. UG
is survived by his erstwhile family, comprising his
two daughters, Usha and Bharati, and their respective
families and his son, Kumar and his family. But his
actual family is much larger than that, extending
over the entire globe and consisting of numerous
?friends? to whom he has been closer than their own
families and indeed their own selves.
Seven weeks before, UG had a fall and injured himself.
This was the second such occurrence in two years. He
did not want such an incident to occur once again
which would make him further dependent on his friends
for his daily maintenance. So he refused medical or
other external intervention. He decided to let his
body take its own natural course. He was confined to
bed and his consumption of food and water became
infrequent and then ceased altogether. ?It?s time to
go,? he declared, joined his palms in namaste, thanked
his friends and advised them to return to their
places. Only his longtime friends, the filmmaker,
Mahesh Bhatt, Larry and Susan Morris, and few other
friends stayed back to guard his body and do whatever
was necessary when the end came. UG did not die of
any disease, although he suffered from ?cardio-spasm?
for many years, which became quite severe in the last
days of his life.
UG did not show the slightest signs of worry or fear
about death or concern for his body even at the end of
his life. He did not leave any specific
instructions as to how to dispose of his dead body.
?You can throw it on the garbage heap, as far as I am
concerned,? he often would say.
Responding to questions on death, UG said, ?Life and
death cannot be separated. When what you call clinical
death takes place, the body breaks itself into
its constituent elements and that provides the basis
for the continuity of life. In that sense the body is
immortal.
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