Instead of summarizing his life, I leave you with an excerpt from one of his final letters before his execution.

To summarize, there are so many accusations that Russia s done something bad that our people have stopped paying attention to these stories in the news.

Today, ten years after we regained our freedom, it is simply insufficient to commemorate and recapitulate those dramatic times when the old world was falling apart and a new burst of freedom appeared.

Kiedis, who had recently become a father, was looking forward to the time off and taking care of his son Everly Bear and possibly creating a short television series called Spider and Son , which was set to recap his autobiography.

Well, well, well.

Well I never!

Gee whiz!

I never did!

Well, well, well, what have we here?

Hold it like this. Like that? No, like this.

That s what it is, isn t it? Of course it is, of course it is.

'That's what it is, my friend!

It's taking something that's obvious .. that's obvious.

Why are you so pessimistic?

He is so sensible, so kind, and so good, and so amiable too.

'Yes!

Yes.

So what went wrong?

It was the climax of the story, the Year of the Fall, a turning point in history cliché transmuted into Truth.

So I lay, and so he stood.

It seemed so coarse and unwomanly.

Then why is she so pleased?

That's the way the world is made and the way man is made.

I'll do it anyway.

It works both ways.

So, you do admit that you've lied, right?

That's not so! It certainly is so.

So many languages, so little time...

You are so deeply hurt, so upset, that you see many things in the wrong light.'

So everything is fine and dandy, right?

But it could not be helped, it was necessary and had to be done.

Do you really think so? I know so.

There is so much to do and so little time.

How is it going with Tom?

So here.

Can you hear that?

That is exactly right.

So ...

You know.

I mean ...

It's so uninteresting.

Yes, all right.

Okay?

So ...

And it's by design.