It is with sadness that we report the death of long-time ATK and UKSW professor Prof. Mieczyslaw Gogacz, who was also recently an honorary member of the Scientific Council of our journal. Prof. Gogacz published nearly thirty articles, reviews and scientific reports in SPCh during his scientific activity. Expressing our gratitude to him, we recall one of his articles, published in SPCh in 1983, titled "Philosophical Reflections on Despair and Hope."