Arash Malekzadeh is a former KQED News visual journalism intern. He majored in journalism at San Francisco State University with a minor in Race and Resistance Studies.
By Arash Malekzadeh
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"content": "\u003cp>A few months ago, I was offered the opportunity to film the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831648/kelly-johnson-former-berkeley-symphony-director-chooses-to-end-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last days\u003c/a> of Kelly Johnson’s life. I did not know him. I did not know how or why the date of his death was predetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told to show up the next morning at Peet’s in The Fillmore. Then I’d walk half a block with my equipment to a beautiful blue Victorian overlooking Fillmore Street where he’d lived since 1969. After climbing two flights of stairs, each step creaking with antiquity, I entered the top flat. I followed an oxygen tube strewn across the carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance. It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Kelly Johnson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson sat on his red couch, calmly staring out the window, as I approached with my camera in hand. A smile stretched across his face as he greeted me. He was ready for his close up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I only met Kelly during the last two weeks of his life, but came to feel as if I had known him longer than I’ve been alive. His spirit was unrestrained. But his body was incapacitated, tethered to his oxygen concentrator and restricted to a walker and, at the end, a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My body has given out,” he said. “You take away my medication, my oxygen, and I’ll be dead by sundown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 75 years old, Kelly's breathing was labored and his body wracked with arthritis. He was terminally ill with pulmonary disease. After several years of declining health, barely able to leave his apartment, he began planning his death. On May 7 of this year, Kelly Johnson died after invoking California’s aid-in-dying law — a memory I cannot erase.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/412308225924469/\">Screening of 'A Dance With Death'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1200x675.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1920x1080.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for the 24-minute film by Arash Malekzadeh.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A screening of a longer version of \"A Dance With Death\" will be held on \u003cstrong>Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre\u003c/strong>, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh and Kelly Johnson's daughter Leda Meredith. Kim Nalley and Tammy Hall will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tickets available \u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/san-francisco/clay-theatre/film-info/a-dance-with-death?attributes=165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686334/a-lesson-in-how-to-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hear a conversation\u003c/a> with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'The Bay'\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016, allowing terminally ill adults to be prescribed aid-in-dying medication under certain conditions. Patients must have the capacity to make medical decisions for themselves and self-administer the drug, either by eating, drinking or swallowing it. Pharmacies and physicians can opt out at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, about a week after Kelly passed, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669924/california-moves-to-defend-law-allowing-life-ending-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law was temporarily halted\u003c/a> by legal challenges. On June 15, a California appeals court reinstated the End of Life Option Act while those challenges make their way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly came to his decision on the way to Peet’s, a community hub on the corner of Fillmore and Sacramento. He \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2017/01/02/kellys-corner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a regular there\u003c/a>, having spent countless mornings and afternoons cultivating friendships over cups of coffee and conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reached a point where people were coming and dragging me down to Peet’s, and I was just gasping for breath,” Kelly said. “There was nothing left of me.” He realized his patronage at Peet’s would soon come to a halt. “I got about three or four steps from my house and I just wanted to die,” he said. “I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Kelly performed with his sister on the vaudeville circuit in Chicago as a contortionist and tap dancer. When he moved to California as an adult in the late 1960s, he and his wife started the San Francisco Dance Theater on Fillmore Street — and changed the face of Bay Area dance in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, he shifted his focus after becoming executive director of the Berkeley Symphony, working alongside international greats such as conductor Kent Nagano, until his diminishing health pushed him toward retirement. In the final stretch of his career, he became a concert pianist, embarking on a tour of retirement communities in Northern California, playing classical piano concerts and composing original music of his own. Earlier this year, he issued a final album of ballet music he wrote and performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686196 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1200x914.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1180x898.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-960x731.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-375x285.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-520x396.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Johnson in 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kelly Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve managed to produce something that I’ve loved until the very end,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson was\u003ca href=\"https://www.kellyjohnson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an entertainer at heart\u003c/a>. He’d arranged countless performances throughout his life and was determined to orchestrate his own death — the grand finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance,” he said. “It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I documented his final weeks, I witnessed a person truly coming to peace with the end of his life. Kelly spent his evenings in the intimate company of his friends, listening to private performances from various musical guests. The sounds of the piano and B3 organ, vocal melodies and clinking glasses floated through his living room window out into the night air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in my home, I’ve got live music, I’ve got a lot of people,” he said. “I can go to a nursing home and I’d have a chest at the end of my bed with all my belongings in it, with someone who’s prolonging my life in misery. But you don’t have to have a black period in your life. I don’t, and I’m very fortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, I felt intrusive — following his final moments with a camera, recording private conversations and interactions. Yet Kelly didn’t mind. He wanted the world to hear his story and to know about the end-of-life option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly acknowledged that he could let his life naturally take its course, or take his chances by quitting the medication that was keeping him alive. But he was determined to choreograph exactly how he would leave the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy he can go the way he wants to,” said Leda Meredith, his daughter. “What the rest of us have to deal with, as far as grieving after the fact, is not his problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his last day, seven hours before his death, I followed Kelly on his final trip down to Peet’s. He was surrounded by his eclectic community of longtime companions and neighborhood friends, all eager to say their final goodbyes. On the wall was a newly hung portrait of him. He read from a brass plaque attached to the place where he often sat, engraved with the words “Kelly’s Corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his last day, Kelly Johnson was surrounded by friends at his favorite spot, the Peet's in The Fillmore. \u003ccite>(Arash Malekzadeh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“'In loving remembrance of Kelly Johnson, Mayor of Peet’s and friend to all,'” he read aloud before the emotional crowd erupted in applause. After an hour of goodbyes, he retreated back to his home to prepare to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I set up my tripod next to his baby grand piano. My lens peeked around the corner of the archway leading into his living room. I knew what to expect, although I couldn’t say I was ready. But Kelly was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took his anti-nausea medication in preparation for the aid-in-dying drug. He sat with his daughter on his left and his best friend and neighbor on his right. He drank a rare tequila from India as he listened to a recording of himself playing Scriabin’s 24 Preludes, Opus 11. His hands jolted as his muscle memory played along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not perfect, but I love those pieces,” he said. “If anything musically is me, it’s those pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1020x1026.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1192x1200.jpg 1192w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1920x1932.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1180x1187.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-960x966.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-375x377.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-520x523.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Kelly on Fillmore\" by Anne Ruth Isaacson \u003ccite>(Anne Ruth Isaacson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the 40-minute composition ended, he was handed the aid-in-dying medication — 90 capsules of powder mixed with orange juice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A few months ago, I was offered the opportunity to film the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831648/kelly-johnson-former-berkeley-symphony-director-chooses-to-end-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last days\u003c/a> of Kelly Johnson’s life. I did not know him. I did not know how or why the date of his death was predetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was told to show up the next morning at Peet’s in The Fillmore. Then I’d walk half a block with my equipment to a beautiful blue Victorian overlooking Fillmore Street where he’d lived since 1969. After climbing two flights of stairs, each step creaking with antiquity, I entered the top flat. I followed an oxygen tube strewn across the carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance. It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Kelly Johnson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson sat on his red couch, calmly staring out the window, as I approached with my camera in hand. A smile stretched across his face as he greeted me. He was ready for his close up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I only met Kelly during the last two weeks of his life, but came to feel as if I had known him longer than I’ve been alive. His spirit was unrestrained. But his body was incapacitated, tethered to his oxygen concentrator and restricted to a walker and, at the end, a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My body has given out,” he said. “You take away my medication, my oxygen, and I’ll be dead by sundown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 75 years old, Kelly's breathing was labored and his body wracked with arthritis. He was terminally ill with pulmonary disease. After several years of declining health, barely able to leave his apartment, he began planning his death. On May 7 of this year, Kelly Johnson died after invoking California’s aid-in-dying law — a memory I cannot erase.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/412308225924469/\">Screening of 'A Dance With Death'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1200x675.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1920x1080.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-5.18.20-PM-2-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for the 24-minute film by Arash Malekzadeh.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A screening of a longer version of \"A Dance With Death\" will be held on \u003cstrong>Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre\u003c/strong>, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh and Kelly Johnson's daughter Leda Meredith. Kim Nalley and Tammy Hall will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tickets available \u003ca href=\"https://www.landmarktheatres.com/san-francisco/clay-theatre/film-info/a-dance-with-death?attributes=165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686334/a-lesson-in-how-to-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hear a conversation\u003c/a> with filmmaker Arash Malekzadeh on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'The Bay'\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016, allowing terminally ill adults to be prescribed aid-in-dying medication under certain conditions. Patients must have the capacity to make medical decisions for themselves and self-administer the drug, either by eating, drinking or swallowing it. Pharmacies and physicians can opt out at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, about a week after Kelly passed, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669924/california-moves-to-defend-law-allowing-life-ending-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law was temporarily halted\u003c/a> by legal challenges. On June 15, a California appeals court reinstated the End of Life Option Act while those challenges make their way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly came to his decision on the way to Peet’s, a community hub on the corner of Fillmore and Sacramento. He \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2017/01/02/kellys-corner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a regular there\u003c/a>, having spent countless mornings and afternoons cultivating friendships over cups of coffee and conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reached a point where people were coming and dragging me down to Peet’s, and I was just gasping for breath,” Kelly said. “There was nothing left of me.” He realized his patronage at Peet’s would soon come to a halt. “I got about three or four steps from my house and I just wanted to die,” he said. “I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child, Kelly performed with his sister on the vaudeville circuit in Chicago as a contortionist and tap dancer. When he moved to California as an adult in the late 1960s, he and his wife started the San Francisco Dance Theater on Fillmore Street — and changed the face of Bay Area dance in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, he shifted his focus after becoming executive director of the Berkeley Symphony, working alongside international greats such as conductor Kent Nagano, until his diminishing health pushed him toward retirement. In the final stretch of his career, he became a concert pianist, embarking on a tour of retirement communities in Northern California, playing classical piano concerts and composing original music of his own. Earlier this year, he issued a final album of ballet music he wrote and performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11686196 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1200x914.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-1180x898.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-960x731.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-375x285.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly-520x396.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/youngkelly.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Johnson in 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kelly Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve managed to produce something that I’ve loved until the very end,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Johnson was\u003ca href=\"https://www.kellyjohnson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an entertainer at heart\u003c/a>. He’d arranged countless performances throughout his life and was determined to orchestrate his own death — the grand finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look back at my life and I’ve choreographed an extraordinary dance,” he said. “It’s over. Strike a pose! Bring the curtain down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I documented his final weeks, I witnessed a person truly coming to peace with the end of his life. Kelly spent his evenings in the intimate company of his friends, listening to private performances from various musical guests. The sounds of the piano and B3 organ, vocal melodies and clinking glasses floated through his living room window out into the night air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in my home, I’ve got live music, I’ve got a lot of people,” he said. “I can go to a nursing home and I’d have a chest at the end of my bed with all my belongings in it, with someone who’s prolonging my life in misery. But you don’t have to have a black period in your life. I don’t, and I’m very fortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, I felt intrusive — following his final moments with a camera, recording private conversations and interactions. Yet Kelly didn’t mind. He wanted the world to hear his story and to know about the end-of-life option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly acknowledged that he could let his life naturally take its course, or take his chances by quitting the medication that was keeping him alive. But he was determined to choreograph exactly how he would leave the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy he can go the way he wants to,” said Leda Meredith, his daughter. “What the rest of us have to deal with, as far as grieving after the fact, is not his problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his last day, seven hours before his death, I followed Kelly on his final trip down to Peet’s. He was surrounded by his eclectic community of longtime companions and neighborhood friends, all eager to say their final goodbyes. On the wall was a newly hung portrait of him. He read from a brass plaque attached to the place where he often sat, engraved with the words “Kelly’s Corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Peets-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his last day, Kelly Johnson was surrounded by friends at his favorite spot, the Peet's in The Fillmore. \u003ccite>(Arash Malekzadeh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“'In loving remembrance of Kelly Johnson, Mayor of Peet’s and friend to all,'” he read aloud before the emotional crowd erupted in applause. After an hour of goodbyes, he retreated back to his home to prepare to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I set up my tripod next to his baby grand piano. My lens peeked around the corner of the archway leading into his living room. I knew what to expect, although I couldn’t say I was ready. But Kelly was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took his anti-nausea medication in preparation for the aid-in-dying drug. He sat with his daughter on his left and his best friend and neighbor on his right. He drank a rare tequila from India as he listened to a recording of himself playing Scriabin’s 24 Preludes, Opus 11. His hands jolted as his muscle memory played along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not perfect, but I love those pieces,” he said. “If anything musically is me, it’s those pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11686197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11686197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-800x805.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1020x1026.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1192x1200.jpg 1192w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1920x1932.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-1180x1187.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-960x966.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-375x377.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-520x523.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/isaacson-a-c-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Kelly on Fillmore\" by Anne Ruth Isaacson \u003ccite>(Anne Ruth Isaacson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the 40-minute composition ended, he was handed the aid-in-dying medication — 90 capsules of powder mixed with orange juice. He had two minutes before the concoction turned to sludge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think now my brain is telling me it’ll fade away peacefully and leave me with my friends,” Kelly said. “That’s my everlasting life. And I’m very happy, just very happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his cue, the room filled with his most recent recording, Chopin’s Nocturne 21 B. With no hesitation, he quickly sipped the cocktail through an oversized straw. As the music fluttered through the speakers, his eyes settled shut in the embrace of his most beloved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was previously published in \u003ca href=\"http://newfillmore.com/2018/05/31/the-final-days-of-kelly-johnson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Fillmore\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A screening of a longer version of\u003c/em> A Dance With Death \u003cem>will be held on Wednesday, August 15th at 7 p.m. at Landmark's Clay Theatre. 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"content": "\u003cp>In San Francisco’s Mission District, there is a dirt lot that stands out from the many vacant properties scattered throughout the city. In the gated parking lot behind \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.impacthub.net/\">Impact Hub SF\u003c/a>, a co-working and event space at 15th and Mission streets, two colorful 5-by-8-foot structures fill the otherwise empty space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These tiny homes are “transitional shelters,” the start of a program aimed at helping to house the city’s growing homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638198\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11638198 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Tiny-homes-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge’s “transitional shelters,” hosted in the parking lot behind Impact Hub SF in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Arash Malakzadeh/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past four months, Couper Orona, a 44-year-old retired firefighter, has taken refuge in one of the small wooden dwellings as part of the Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge’s (SFHC) \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintfrancischallenge.org/transitionalsleepandstorage/\">Transitional Sleep and Storage Shelter pilot program\u003c/a>. Orona moved into the unit after living in tent encampments and leaving the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/programs/navcenter.html\">Navigation Center\u003c/a>, which limited her stay to 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is sturdy and strong,” Orona says. “It gives me stability, it gives me security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new program affords her basic housing — a roof over her head, a bed to sleep in and a secure place to keep her possessions — allowing her to work and stay indefinitely while pursuing more permanent housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFrancisco-PIT-FINAL.pdf\">Homeless Count and Survey\u003c/a>, 3,134 people currently live outdoors in San Francisco. The city spends nearly $30 million responding to encampments. 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