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I've Been in the Shadow of the Angel of Death Since I Was 18
"I realized this is how it happens, I told them, how death makes its entrance," he said. "Here in a hospital bed one minute, and then the idea that you'll be out and you'll wake up with news ... that's very scary." Elfman described a ceremony as family does at every one of his birthdays. He killed a cake, reaching in with his bare hands to pull out its center like a beating heart. There is a beat of silence, then bound back, perfect timing, deadpan delivery, and death is saying, just eat more of that cake.