Rachel Naomi Remen died Saturday at 8:24 a.m., surrounded by people who loved her. [1] She was 88. The family notice on Legacy recorded the hour. The paper's Saturday feature already treated that morning as the profile, before institutional memorials. This brief is the clock.

She was a clinical professor of family and community medicine at UCSF, founder of The Healer's Art, and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. [1] She wrote Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings. At 15 she was given ten years after a Crohn's diagnosis. She lived seven more decades.

Michael Lerner said, "We have lost a great soul." [1] Vivek Murthy said every conversation with her felt like coming home. Wellness accounts will make quote cards by evening. Saturday's completed stage is 8:24 a.m. and a notice that does not invent a place of death.

A memorial gathering is set for Congregation Ner Shalom on Thursday, August 13. [1] A tribute at Commonweal in Bolinas is set for October 3. The family asked that donations go to the Remen Institute at Wright State or to a Commonweal healing fund. Those are Saturday's practical sentences. They do not replace 8:24 a.m.

The hour is 8:24. The titles can wait. [1]

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago