On an August afternoon in 1995, Peter Rubin gathered his closest friends in the living room of his home for the last time.
Rubin, a 48-year-old father of two children and a juvenile public defender in Madison, had been fighting a terminal cancer diagnosis for a year.
“The cancer had taken a toll,” recalled Randy Sproule, one of Rubin’s friends. “Peter told us that the chemotherapy and other treatments were no longer working — that the cancer had metastasized and that he knew the end was imminent.”…