But the national debate stirred by his death on Jan . 12took an unexpected turn last week when a Spanish television station broadcast a homemade video that showed the bedridden Mr. Sampedro saying farewell into the camera and then drinking cyanide-laced water through a straw.
Yet for all its allusions to Schumann's love for his wife, Clara, and his scorn for his opponents in the music world, and for all its image of his mental breakdown, symbolized by a farewell into a watery grave, the ballet has a wider scope.
After his casket had been removed, cemetery workers lowered box upon box of farewell notes into the empty pit, a process that was also broadcast live.
Goran Ivanisevic extended his farewell tour into the third round, and 47-year-old Martina Navratilova won the first set against Gisela Dulko before losing in three sets.
Stung by this rejection, Scorsese edited his footage of The Band's November 1976 farewell concert into the well-received rockumentary The Last Waltz (1978), with unparalleled performance footage of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and other musical luminaries.
Because of this, he worked on a translation of George Washington's Farewell Address into the Spanish language.
There was nothing to play for at the Borussia Park, but Jupp Heynckes Bundesligaa farewell in his hometown turned into a very moving occasion.
But exhaustion was sinking into my bones, so I bid him farewell and ducked into a cab.
The tone is lifted as the farewells modulate into Ophelia's words from Hamlet: "Good night, ladies, good night sweet ladies, good night, good night".
Both composers' expansive visions have had a lot of wistful farewells read into them, both personal and in a generally end-of-an-imperial-era way.
La nuit s'approche, you said, and then I saw the parish church below the Alps of those three words, and snow falling, a bell tolling as their farewells dimmed into the gathering dusk.
