Love and Death
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis, “The Book of Common Prayer”: A Biography, and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, among others. Share Much has been made of physician and ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel’s views—originally published in 2014 and reaffirmed since then—that life after the age of 75 or so is scarcely worth living, and a society that expends resources on prolonging such life is making a poor investment. A less extreme version of the same calculation h...