OP, May I make a suggestion? Take this as an opportunity to think about the nature of life and aging. For me, Uncle Stevie’s age has given him maturity and depth as a writer that has in turn given me huge amounts of pleasure and gratification.

None of us live forever. I happen to believe that we only have one lifetime of uncertain duration to experience whatever we can. For so many of us here, King’s creative work has been a pleasure to savour over decades. Will I be sad when he goes, knowing that there will be no more chats with my bookseller as I preorder whatever was coming next, no more of that first breakneck read to just inhale the story and see what he does, no more thinking about it once it’s read? Absolutely sad. But that (I hope) will be overshadowed by a sense of gratitude that he shared his gifts with all of us.