It is significant that he changed his will only days before his death.

他在临终前几天修改遗嘱，这很能说明问题。

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Before his death, he filed a deed protecting the use of his image until 2039, preventing others from recreating him using CGI to appear in a film, TV show or as a hologram．

在他死前，他提交了一份契约，来保护他的形象在2039年之前的使用，防止其他人使用计算机生成图像技术在电影、电视节目或全息图中再现他的形象。

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Two months before he died, newspapers were reporting that he was working on a "death ray," and that he had "killed a rat with an intricate device at a distance of three feet".

在他去世的两个月前，报纸报道称他正在研究“死亡射线”，并“用一个复杂的装置在三英尺外杀死了一只老鼠”。

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He continued to broadcast on VOA until not long before his death in 1996, at the age of 75.

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Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his yearly event to give toys to needy children in Augusta,Georgia.

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When he stopped teaching at Howard, he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death.

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He had served his sentence but shortly before his death he was recalled to prison for a breach of a probation order and was described as a "vulnerable" prisoner.

BBC: Staff suspended after jail death

The day before his death he was given 63 different tablets, but only two were found in his cell after his death.

BBC: Maghaberry prisoner died from 'drugs cocktail'

He said that in the days before his death, he had seen a bite mark on Keanu's arm.

BBC: Keanu Williams: Grandfather saw 'bruises and bites'