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For those who followed his journey Michael Patrick’s life is a sobering lesson on the fragility of time. We often speak of having a year or a decade or a lifetime as if those spans are guaranteed. Michael’s experience shows that the only time that truly exists is the present. His planned projects and his “lots to live for” remain as a poignant reminder that we should all live as if our year might be ten days. He squeezed every drop of marrow out of his existence refusing to let a wheelchair or a diagnosis define the perimeter of his soul.
As the curtain falls on the life of this Belfast born titan the industry reflects on what was lost and what remains. Michael Patrick was more than a Game of Thrones actor; he was a scholar a Shakespearean a husband and a fighter. He reminded us that the measure of a life is not its duration but its intensity. He ate he drank and he loved just as Behan suggested and in doing so he transformed his final chapter into a masterpiece of human endurance. Though he was gone far sooner than the doctors predicted and far sooner than his family hoped Michael Patrick achieved something most people never do: he made every single one of those ten days count. His voice might be silent now but the echoes of his laughter and the power of his performances will continue to inspire for generations to come. He was Michael Patrick and he was just getting started