Ken Lay's death at the age of 64 was shocking and was the ultimate blow to an individual whom accumulated great wealth and status. However, as usual, time wears everyone out and Lay was no match.

Mr. Lay of course is viewed as the "Enron scoundrel" responsible with others for bilking around 183 million dollars while overstating the value of the company. Naturally, shareholders were destroyed as the orgy of greed by "Mr. I'm-going-to-live-forever-so-let-me-dip-in" went on and on. Typically, the fun came to an end as it always does. And what was left was devastation, filthy greed, bankruptcy, hate, anger, sadness. Lay was indicted, found guilty and was going to be sentenced to somewhere around 20 years. Not good, especially for someone of his age. Then he was taken out by a massive heart attack. Adios, Ken.

Lay, by all accounts, did not seem like the evil guy he is portrayed to be by the media throughout his life. He donated money to causes, was a guy from very humble beginnings and became an undersecretary for the US Department of the Interior. Nice stuff. But that greed thing came back to haunt him.

Perhaps the stress of his case did him in. It would certainly make sense. Going from the "big man" to a jackass is a tough thing to handle. Facing many years in jail is a brutal thing to deal with no matter how calm anyone is. He had some heart disease but was considered a stable heart patient like a ton of people.

When notorious mob thug John Gotti was given a life sentence( he later died of neck cancer) he was caught on tape saying he would give his "bleeping right arm for a plate of linguini with clam sauce." He knew the enjoyment of the little things in life was over. All of the years living high no longer mattered because it was now over for Gotti. The millions of ill-gotten loot, the women, the media frenzy, the fear he brought, etc. Goodbye. And all he wanted was bleeping linguini with clam sauce in the end. What a huge lesson to be learned. Despite being a "big-shot," it was built on a house of cards...like all of us.

Ken Lay was an extremely intelligent man with hints of goodness and hints of brutal greed and evil. The evil took over in the end and he paid for it. In the final stages, he seemed like an aging, somewhat frail man; certainly no big corporate guy. The image was being taken down little-by-little. Then again, it is always a bad thing to worship another human being, particularly one whom makes a lot of money.

Mr. Lay is now dead. Hopefully, good things come his way in the next life. Why would one want to wish bad things? What does that do for the person wishing it? We are all going to face it relatively soon so why spread the hate? Anyway, the total power of death over humanity and all living things is to be respected, and not some guy on the scene who made some money and went in the same exact path we all are headed. Money is no match for death...again.