Guess we're all gonna eventually die. We're like little drops of snow on hot stove. The fact that Stan died too young for our liking doesn't really matter that much in the grand scheme. What does matter is that Stan now belongs not to us, who are fortunate enough to have worked with him and known him. Stan now belongs to the ages. He takes his place in a line of great men who have come before him - scientists who actually took a stand for something.

Down through the decades, these clear-thinking authors who couldn't be bought are routinely suppressed and forgotten, "dashed to bits on the rocks," as Goethe would put it. Henry Lindlahr, JH Tilden, Antoine Bechamp, Edward Howell, Weston Price, Howard Wiley, Gunter Enderlein, Max Gerson, Royal Lee, Alexis Carrel, Otto Warburg, Stan Bynum - who knows these names today? Stan knew them all - they were his colleagues. These guys were some of the finest doctors who ever drew breath, for the simple reason that they really lived in pursuit of health for their patients, not for money and fame for themselves, or new ways of brainwashing people to act as guinea pigs for the latest drugs. In general though, their work was buried with them.

As a teacher, Stan had no peer. Many of us have long appreciated his patience and kindness in instructing us. There are many gifted scientists who have risen to the heights of vast awareness through lives of unrelenting study. Often it is their excuse for aloofness. Few can really communicate with them on their own level, because of the breadth of their specialized knowledge. They are so often unapproachable, just because they'd rather not take the effort to backtrack.

Not Stan. Stan would backtrack all the way to the level of anyone who was really trying to understand a new idea - whole food vitamins, chelated minerals, free radicals - what part of the general population has any clue of these notions? But they're true, and they're important, and they can mean the difference between health and disease.

But Stan would always meet you at your level, without condescension, because there was no time for that. He was desperate to get these ideas out there, because he, above all else, knew of their vital importance to humanity.

A few months from now, after our grief has been muted, what will we remember about Stan Bynum? Those of us who knew him personally will treasure the memory of that interaction forever. Those who did not will have Stan's contribution to humanity - the products. Stan was not a prolific writer - he didn't really have time. Stan was a doer. He created something that can bring about profound changes in people's health. We are now the keepers of that legacy. What we now do with the tools Stan has provided will determine whether or not, like most of the great scientists before him, Stan's work will be buried with him.

I think that's what Stan would want - not so much to be remembered himself, but just for us to tell others about those treasures that he spent the last ten years of his life creating. Stan's work is done, and it's his time to rest. But not us. We've got a lot of work to do. Most people have never heard of Stan Bynum and his formulations. Many are desperately searching for an effective alternative to sickness and drugs, and would give anything to know this information. So every time a new person's health gets saved from that long road to degeneration because of our actions, because we shared Stan's ideas, that's all Stan ever wanted.

That's life everlasting.