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. As Felix put it to me, Old age is a continuous series of losses. #AtulGawande

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. As Felix put it to me, Old age is a continuous series of losses. #AtulGawande

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