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Summary: Columbia-based psychiatrist and writer Gordon Livingston discusses the concept of the "ethical will,” an account of a person’s life prepared for children and grandchildren and passed down as a teaching tool. Dr. Livingston is the author of Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now and The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths about Fear and Courage.