All our tombs will be unvisited in a few years - all our actions will mostly be unremembered - but the smile you gave the checkout lady or the kind words you gave to a stranger in the street could still be rippling forward. We all have that opportunity and it's a huge power.
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Simon Boas
Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid
United Kingdom · 1977–2024
Politics and public life
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British aid worker who spent his career with development charities and the United Nations, including three years running a UN office in Gaza, and his last eight years running Jersey's overseas aid agency. Diagnosed with terminal throat cancer at forty-six, he wrote about dying for the Jersey Evening Post and in A Beginner's Guide to Dying, published after his death.
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