?What is one of the most selfless things you have done in life?<br />
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Here I will paraphrase Anthony Demello by saying that we are all basically selfish human beings who mostly act according to what feels good to us, so excepting on one side saints and on the other psychopathic personalities, the rest of humanity acts in a manner not strictly selfless, always in consequence of what affects them.  I am no exception, so I find it impossible to write about selfless acts.  <br />
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So many horrible things happen in the world that affects us little unless they reach people close to us.  The Holocaust was something abstract about which I never thought until Miriam and I visited the museum of Dachau Concentration Camp in Munich.  Pol Pot exterminated fully one third of the population of Cambodia (two of six million), eliminating ?intellectuals, which he defined as anyone wearing eyeglasses, without us in the Western World thinking much about it; the same with Mao, Stalin, African Wars, etc.   <br />
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We all do unselfish things for our families, friends and other loved people or those that we are aware of in a tangible way, but in our family, that, as well as charitable and church contributions, have always been the realm of Miriam.  She has always done an excellent job of it.<br />
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In sixty-one years of marriage, perhaps because we do not value money for the sake of accumulating it, Miriam and I have never had money disagreements, always considered our money community property, were never selfish about it.  We have always tried to help family, friends and our church.<br />
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