At the end of June, Prof. Eugenio Sarti came from Bologna, Italy. Yasundo enjoyed talking with him so much that finally Donata Sarti and I had to make them stop.

Early in July, there was an International Federation of Automatic Control meeting in San Francisco. Yasundo could not attend the meeting, but we had dinner with Prof. and Mme. Perret from Grenoble, France and Prof. Cristina Verde from Mexico City. He also enjoyed talking with Prof. Mike Rabins from Texas.

In August and September, Yasundo declined quickly. On a regular visit to the hospital, Dr. Irwin hugged Yasundo and told him there was nothing more he could do. Yasundo asked him how long he would live? The answer he heard was five or six weeks. I thought I heard five or six months, but Yasundo was right.

Early in October, he wrote his farewell note in Japanese and English on the word processor, helped by Sally Sutherland. On Sunday, October 27, Yasundo asked Jim Canfield, our son-in-law, who had come to help me, to take him to the computer. Yasundo opened it and closed it. On Monday, October 28, he went into coma and on Tuesday, October 29, in the early afternoon, his breathing stopped.

On November 3, a memorial ceremony was held at Northbrae Community Church and was attended by many friends and relatives. Eulogies were given by U.C. Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, Prof. David Auslander and Prof. Masanori Mori who came from Tokyo. Koji Ezumi showed Yasundo's home page on a screen. His final message was distributed as "Sayonara" in English and Japanese.