The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well - Paperback
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The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well
Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but...
Joseph E. Davis is research professor of sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery.
Paul Scherz is associate professor of moral theology and ethics at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Science and...
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