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Timothy Hussey, 59, businessman wrote about lessons of illness - The Boston Globe

Mr. Hussey, who was president and CEO of Hussey Seating Co., and was the sixth generation of his family to lead the North Berwick, Maine, business, died June 13 in Massachusetts General Hospital of mucosal melanoma. He was 59.“I have found that writing for others helps me articulate my feelings, my learnings, and my goals and strategies,” he wrote in his first blog post, in August 2014, a little more than two months after he was diagnosed.Though Mr. Hussey sailed on the ocean, he was a good a navigator on the written page, too, even before he knew illness would shorten his life. Just a dozen days before a doctor offered a grim diagnosis, Mr. Hussey delivered the commencement address at York County Community College.Comparing life to a Shakespearean performance, he cautioned that “we never know when that last act will play out. It could be at any time.” On a graduation day filled with hopes, dreams, and excitement, he added, “it’s exhilarating, and you might almost feel immortal. But the reality is that we are mortal. And what matters, for longer than we realize, is how we behave and what choices we make in this mortal world. Yes, we do get to write the script for the drama of our lives.”Mr. Hussey had always been an animated storyteller, using different voices for characters as he read to his children when they were young. Years of leading his business consumed considerable time until illness prompted him to look more closely at the lessons he might share.“Once he started sort of letting go and realizing what was more important to him, out flowed these stories,” said his wife, Marcia Landry. “Tim did a lot of work in the last two years developing his spiritual self.”On May 10, Mr. Hussey posted the second-to-last entry on his blog. He wrote more than 3,000 words about his spiritual life and how he had reached beyond his upbringing in Kennebunkport’s South Congregational Church in search of more questions to contemplate, some of which he resolved. “Let me start at the end,” he wrote to begin the post. “I have reached the point where I don’t fear death. I actually don’t believe there is permanent death for any of us, and this belief is very liberating! I can release lots of fears after letting go of the fear of death, and live my life with much more peace.”Born in Biddeford, Maine, Timothy Buffum Hussey grew up in Kennebunkport, the oldest of four children. His father, Philip Hussey Jr., also had served as president of the family business. His mother, the forme...

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Timothy Hussey, 59, businessman wrote about lessons of illness - The Boston Globe

Mr. Hussey, who was president and CEO of Hussey Seating Co., and was the sixth generation of his family to lead the North Berwick, Maine, business, died June 13 in Massachusetts General Hospital of mucosal melanoma. He was 59.“I have found that writing for others helps me articulate my feelings, my learnings, and my goals and strategies,” he wrote in his first blog post, in August 2014, a little more than two months after he was diagnosed.Though Mr. Hussey sailed on the ocean, he was a good a navigator on the written page, too, even before he knew illness would shorten his life. Just a dozen days before a doctor offered a grim diagnosis, Mr. Hussey delivered the commencement address at York County Community College.Comparing life to a Shakespearean performance, he cautioned that “we never know when that last act will play out. It could be at any time.” On a graduation day filled with hopes, dreams, and excitement, he added, “it’s exhilarating, and you might almost feel immortal. But the reality is that we are mortal. And what matters, for longer than we realize, is how we behave and what choices we make in this mortal world. Yes, we do get to write the script for the drama of our lives.”Mr. Hussey had always been an animated storyteller, using different voices for characters as he read to his children when they were young. Years of leading his business consumed considerable time until illness prompted him to look more closely at the lessons he might share.“Once he started sort of letting go and realizing what was more important to him, out flowed these stories,” said his wife, Marcia Landry. “Tim did a lot of work in the last two years developing his spiritual self.”On May 10, Mr. Hussey posted the second-to-last entry on his blog. He wrote more than 3,000 words about his spiritual life and how he had reached beyond his upbringing in Kennebunkport’s South Congregational Church in search of more questions to contemplate, some of which he resolved. “Let me start at the end,” he wrote to begin the post. “I have reached the point where I don’t fear death. I actually don’t believe there is permanent death for any of us, and this belief is very liberating! I can release lots of fears after letting go of the fear of death, and live my life with much more peace.”Born in Biddeford, Maine, Timothy Buffum Hussey grew up in Kennebunkport, the oldest of four children. His father, Philip Hussey Jr., also had served as president of the family business. His mother, the forme...