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Jun 17, 2024 · Chapter 1 - The Independent Self. The author’s father from India could not get used to the modern way of how the old and frail is treated: “their last conscious moments spent with nurses and doctors who barely knew their names.” More people are living alone in old age, including in Asia:
Jun 19, 2024 · This is where Being Mortal comes in. It would be reductive to say that it’s simply a book about death because it’s so much more than that. While death is a reality we’re all aware of on an intellectual level – for doctors and nurses, on a medical level – its complexities go well beyond that.
Jun 29, 2024 · It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis.
Jun 27, 2024 · Immortal beings often spark curiosity, as their experiences stretch over centuries or millennia, allowing them to witness the rise and fall of empires, and the ever-changing human condition. The list of these ageless entities includes a wide variety of personas.
Jun 12, 2024 · Here Atul Gawande (Being Mortal) is very helpful. Gawande lists questions that need to be explored, and re-explored, with someone in this time of life. Those questions are, “What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes?
Jun 13, 2024 · Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. Eternity. It has been the ultimate goal for a human being. Thousands of years ago, the Egyptian Pharoh preserved their bodies for return from the next life. Emperors for all regions and ages sought the fruit, medicine, treatment for a never ending life. Their stories outlive their bodies.
If you reject the "mortality" argument of ents and the "living" argument of Nazgûl and look only at those explicitly mortal races of Men, Dwarves, and Hobbits, then yes Smeagol/Gollum is the oldest having lived 589 years. Elros, the first and longest lived kings of Numenor only lived 500 years.
