Death of a Spaceman

The manner in which a man has lived is often the key to the way he will die. Take old man Donegal, for example. Most of his adult life was spent in digging a hole through space to learn what was on the other side. Would he go out the same way? The story is of the last moments of a spaceman. He doesn't whine, doesn't resort to putting burden on others, and doesn’t fear death. It's like he welcomed death now that he had lived his life fully.