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Rest Home Bullies Show You Never Outgrow Human Nature.
An article in The New York Times (titled "Mean Girls in the Retirement Home") offered a window into a neglected corner of an even more neglected ...
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Religion … the Fountain of Youth?
A BBC article profiles a Seventh Day Adventist community in Loma Linda, California, where aged residents live an average of ten years longer than the ...
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Actress Laments Our 'Fixation on Youth'
In a New York Times article, actress Frances McDormand spoke out against what she called Hollywood's and America's "perverse fixation on ...
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Plight of Older Shelter Dogs Shows Our Fear of Aging
An article published by the Los Angeles Times highlights the difficult situation of many older dogs in animal shelters—few new pet owners are willing ...
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Famous Actress on the Pain of Aging
Kristin Scott Thomas, the British-born actress who was nominated for an Oscar (The English Patient), talked about the pressure of growing older in a culture ...
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Comparing Our Bodies to an Amusement Park Ride
The Week magazine runs a column called "What's Next?," a regular contest based on current events. In a recent issue they asked readers to ...
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Colorado Festival Tries to Mock Death
How do people in our culture deal with the reality of death? One way is to mock death, as though somehow by thumbing our nose at it, we can prevent it ...
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'Death Cafes' Provide Safe Place to Discuss Death
No one wants to talk about death at the dinner table, at a soccer game, or at a party, says Lizzy Miles, a social worker from Columbus, Ohio. But sometimes ...
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Rembrandt Captured the Goodness of Old Age
According to the British art critic Jonathan Jones, many Renaissance artists were "coldly curious" or even cruel in their depictions of old ...
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Woody Allen Reflects on Old Age and Death
A 2012 interview with the actor and film director Woody Allen states that "Allen has been confronting the horror of mortality … since he was ...
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