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Hi Tony…such important questions! My father is 93. He’s living in his own home and doing okay, but when I look at his somewhat constrained life, I wonder - is it worth it to live so long? He says he is ready to die. But frankly, there’s nothing wrong. With him. He could live several more years, gradually declining. He had what would have been a fatal cancer at 87 and an operation “saved” his life. I ask myself, would I have made that choice? At what point does life extension simply become grasping for every last gasp? I fear the value we place on quantity of life is not in our best interests. If we were more accepting of death, how might this accept our budgeting for our elderly years?

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Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur
Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur

Written by Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur

Author, communications expert and publisher of Changemakers Books, Tim is now a full time Mature Flaneur, wandering Europe with Teresa, his beloved wife.

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