The Best of Times/The Worst of Times: Aging and Dependency in the 21st Century

作者: Jacob A. Brody

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3391-0_1

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摘要: Can we resist the metaphor of “wonderful one-hoss-shay” alluded to by Fries in his article ‘Aging, Natural Death and Compression Morbidity’ [13]? We all yearn live perfect physical mental harmony with ourselves our surroundings until some long-postponed event suddenly snatches away lives. How stark contrast are W. B. Yeats’ lines poem ‘Sailing Byzantium’: Consume my heart away; sick desire And fastened a dying animal It knows not what it is.

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