For those of you not familiar with Hal Malchow, he’s a long-time Democratic political strategist and author who was an early pioneer of targeted direct-mail political campaigns. His very successful career lasted for many decades until now when he is in his seventies. This week, that career will come to an end because Hal Malchow is going to die on Thursday. He isn’t suffering from a physical terminal illness, nor is he expecting assassins to come for him. He is in Zurich, Switzerland and he will die in an apartment there in the company of his son and family members after a nurse administers a fatal dose of medication to him. He’s been planning this for many years because Hal has Alzheimer’s Disease and he is rapidly losing his cognitive abilities. He does not wish to be a burden on his family and decided, as he recently put it, that he is “done.” (Politico)
On Thursday, March 21,…
