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Tuesday Nov 06 2007
Written by eldering at Learning
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Wednesday Apr 18 2007 The most joyful person I have ever met was a young man dying of AIDS. Chris’s path to serenity had been long and difficult. In the early 1990s, his family, afraid of their community's reaction to his gay lifestyle, rejected him. He moved from central Canada to Vancouver, developed a family of choice, and lived with a partner committed to a life-long relationship. But his partner and many of his friends died of AIDS. Then his place of employment found out the reason for his many absences for sick leave, and he was fired on the spot. Later, life-threatening infections kept him in hospital, too weak to care for himself. When I knew him, he understood that there was no hope for a cure or prolongation of his life. Medicine could do nothing beyond keeping him comfortable, and he was facing his imminent death.[Read More]
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Wednesday Mar 14 2007 A lot is written these days about aging gracefully. As we approach our senior years, we also become aware of a vague dread: we don’t want to acknowledge our fear of dying. Evolution, while fitting us with an urgent will to survive and multiply, also equipped us with a powerful, instinctive fear of death. It is perfectly normal and natural to have a strong aversion to anything to do with it. Many people end their lives without ever addressing the issue. But if we choose to open up to this part of our genetic makeup, what is it really about? Does it relate to the course of illness leading to the body’s demise, to the process of dying itself, or to fear of what comes after? Or is it a combination of all three, with a host of other unnamed distresses tagging along?[Read More]
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Friday Feb 09 2007 
I came home still a little teary and deeply moved after seeing Peter O’Toole’s new film Venus,
a tour de force about a love affair, albeit chaste, between Maurice, an
aging (80 something) lothario, and Jessie, an angry and unsophisticated
young woman (20 something). I was eager to read the reviews and shocked
to find that most viewers had put it down (6 on a scale of 10) largely
as a reflection of their discomfort with the suggestions of sexual
intimacy across such a wide generational divide. From my
perspective, it was a masterpiece depicting our cultural expectations
for aging and the possibility of living life full of love, passion and
even desire to the last day. [Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging Tagged with: dying living movie perspective possibility
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