48th Anniversary of Lewis’s Death

Today is the 48th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s death. He died on November 22, 1963. While it is best to celebrate the life a person has lived, the follow except from Warren Lewis shares his brother’s last day:

Friday, the 22nd of November 1963, began much as other days: there was breakfast, then letters and the crossword puzzle. After lunch he fell asleep in his chair: I suggested that he would be more comfortable in bed, and he went there. At four I took in his tea and found him drowsy but comfortable. Our few words then were the last: at five-thirty I heard a crash and ran in, to find him lying unconscious at the foot of his bed. He ceased to breathe some three or four minutes later.

From: Letters of C.S. Lewis – Edited, with a Memoir by W.H. Lewis (1966)