davidrichards wrote:Am I in a minority finding the "Optional final verse" both inappropriate and offensive?

I don't think you are

I thought that listening at the last CD everyday was a preparation for his death and it was indeed. But of course it's not been enough. I'm completely devastated and cannot stop crying. His loss is inmense, I've lost my guide for so many things during almost all my life, the one he saved very often....

"I'm a little too weak to get out there and boogie, and a little too healthy to die"

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/the ... ard-cohen/

I found it very interesting, much more than last articles about Cohen around the interview in The New Yorker

I don't see in that interview (or maybe I don't want to see it) a specific illness mentioned. He is 82 and that is obviously quite an age.

Happy Birthday dear Leonard, and thanks again for giving me so much, for a long time you have been everyday saving my life!!

Listen to Rufus Wainwright Sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” With 1500-Person Choir (July 2016)

http://www.business2community.com/socia ... g0HSKbz.99

Rest in peace, Marianne, after such a worth living life,

She always seemed to me so sincere and simple and honesto and beautiful and calm

Yes that was the message I was looking for

Thanks very much

Hi all, I hope all of you feeling well! I think I saw recently in this forum a message personally writen by LC to all the members here who love him so so much, but I'm navigating all the topics and can't find it. Maybe I dreamt it! Could any of you be so kind to enlighten me? ;) Thanks in advance!!

Happy birthday, dear Leonard, with my best wishes and hopes!

Thank you for everything and hope to see you again!

It has been unbelievable.

Thank you, Leonard&Co

Hope to meet you soon again

It was a great night. I found Leonard Cohen very relaxed and in a great good shape...and very happy.

Thanks LC for this evening and for everything

Does anybody know if there is going to exist Curfew limit in Bergen concert?

Thanks in advance

Thank you all for your kind answers. After them I reconsidered the situation and my children ("who were asking to be born" ;) will stay in the hotel. The truth is that I have been in several concerts by Leonard, and in one of them, in Florence, 2 or 3 years ago, I remember to find children...