Jonathan Clements, Longtime WSJ Columnist, Dies at 62
Last fall, Jonathan Clements, author of The Wall Street Journal’s long-running personal-finance column, “Getting Going,” wrote a gut-wrenching article for the Journal about his terminal cancer diagnosis.
Jesting at his own impending death, he proposed to the article’s editors that the headline should be “Getting Gone.”
Now he is gone. Clements, 62 years old, died in Philadelphia on Sunday, about a year-and-a-half after being diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Between 1994 and 2008, he wrote 1,009 columns on investing, financial planning, money and life for the Journal.
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