It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre. #AtulGawande

- December 21, 2024

It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre. #AtulGawande
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It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre. #AtulGawande

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