“KRIS KRISTOFFERSON’S FINAL CONFESSION: ‘I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD MANY TIMES OVER'” He flew attack helicopters. He boxed until he lost his memory. He rolled cars drunk. He outran death so many times it stopped feeling like luck and started feeling like a debt. Then — as an old man — Kris Kristofferson said the words nobody saw coming: “I should have been dead many times over… It’s embarrassing now, sitting here, knowing you took all the good things for granted, that I didn’t cherish my life a bit more.” This was the Rhodes Scholar. The Army Captain. The man who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee.” And yet, in the quiet of his Maui home, he admitted what most men take to the grave — that he hadn’t loved his own life enough while it was burning bright. But what his wife saw in those final Hawaii mornings — the way he’d just sit and stare at the ocean — tells a story no one else has ever told… Are you living yours like a man who knows tomorrow isn’t promised — or like Kris did, until it almost was?
Kris Kristofferson’s Final Confession: “I Should Have Been Dead Many Times Over” There are some men whose lives seem too large to belong to one person. Kris Kristofferson was one…