5/5/2014 – Why Bring Up Death When We Could Talk About ‘Something More Pleasant’?

When people talk about extending the human lifespan to 120 it bothers Roz Chast. “That upsets me for a lot of reasons,” she tells NPR’s Melissa Block. “I feel like these are people who don’t really know anybody over 95.” The reality of old age, she says, is that “people are not in good shape, and everything is falling apart.”

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