What are with some of these comments? This is not a story about a man who lost his 401k value.
This is about seeing the end of the road and realizing the greatest things you've done you can never do again. Here's a man who is considered by some the greatest american writer (words of my freshman year english prof), who felt like he would "never achieve what he was capable of"(paraphrase).
See:
http://www.jayebee.com/creations/incompleteness/incompletene...