“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room in heaven.”
Muhammad Ali did not have any final spoken words because he was unable to talk in the days leading up to his passing, but his gravestone bears this famous maxim on humanitarianism attributed to him.
The professional boxer and activist, a global cultural icon, was hospitalised in Scottsdale Arizona with a respiratory illness. Ali’s condition worsened and he died the next day at the age of 74 from septic shock.