Column: Is 75 the right age to wait for death? Steve Lopez isn't quite ready to pack it in
‘Rather than thinking of 75 as the time to die,’ let’s reimagine a world in which it’s a ‘robust time of engagement and work’
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‘Rather than thinking of 75 as the time to die,’ let’s reimagine a world in which it’s a ‘robust time of engagement and work’
March 3, 2021 Few doubt that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policy of sending COVID-19 patients into nursing homes led to a huge spike in deaths of the elderly. The puzzle is that those tragic results were both predictable and preventable. There were warnings right from the outset. Several writerssuggest Cuomo’s directive seemed to intentionally de-value those lives. Hence, a much bigger question looms over the scandal than what it means for Cuomo’s career: What happens when an entrenched ruling class devalues human life in general, and the lives of the elderly in particular? In genera...