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My Turn: Qualities of life jacoblund
Published: 6/1/2021 8:34:42 AM
As a person advancing (rapidly, it seems) through the “golden years,” and looking back fondly at the milestone of 70, my eyes are drawn to stories about older people. In a recent New Yorker (May 17), Brooke Jarvis reviewed two books related to aging, quality of life, and the growth of “right to die” (or “assisted dying”) groups.
Two statistics surprised me. One is the rapid increase in life expectancy. During the first 10,000 years of our history, people could expect to live about 35 years, regardless of their location or economic prosperity. Beginning In the 1700s, medical and societal changes began to push the figure upwards, followed by a meteoric rise in the last 100 years. Between the flu pandemic of 1918 and our current one, life expectancy worldwide doubled to almost 73 years!
Letters respond to Sheelah Kolhatkar’s article about the investment platform Robinhood, Brooke Jarvis’s essay about how the extension of life spans affects the way we think about death, and Jiayang Fan’s piece about disgusting foods.
Altercation: The Piketty Impact
French economist Thomas Piketty in 2019
While reading Brooke Jarvisâs fascinating New Yorker essay about issues associated with the endingârather than the extendingâof life, I came across this passage:
âOf all the forms of inequality,â Martin Luther King, Jr., said in 1966, by which time the divide was entrenched, âinjustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.â Even in modern American cities, people born into poor neighborhoods can expect to live as many as thirty years fewer than people who are born in affluent ones across town. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic further widened our existing gaps.
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