The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well by University of Notre Dame Press

Author:University of Notre Dame Press
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Notes

1. Tad Friend, “Getting On: Why Ageism Never Gets Old,” New Yorker,November 20, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/why-ageism-never-gets-old,46.

2. Warwick Bray, The Everyday Lives of the Aztecs (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1987).

3. Jean Améry, On Aging: Revolt and Resignation, trans. John D. Barlow (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

4. Simone de Beauvoir, The Coming of Age, trans. P. O’Brian (New York: W. W. Norton & Company), 382, 380.

5. As a rule, Dylan Thomas’s “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” is not really socially acceptable. His proposal that “old age should burn and rage at the close of day” gets harder and harder to pull off as the end nears.

6. Améry, On Aging, 78.

7. Ibid., 78.

8. Ibid., 85.

9. Ibid., 91.

10. Ibid., 96.

11. Ibid., 96.

12. Ibid., 98.

13. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), 38.

14. Ibid., Sections 12–20.

15. Ibid., Div. I, chap. 4.

16. Ibid., Div. I, chap. 5, Sections 29–30.

17. Ibid., Div. II, chaps. 3, 4, and 5.

18. Ibid., 369. To say that continuity, steadfastness, coherence, and cohesiveness (along with other features of a well-lived life) are made possible by authenticity is not to say that anyone who exemplifies such traits is therefore authentic. Nor is there any reason to think, as students sometimes protest, that Hitler or other sociopaths might have been authentic because they’ve had these traits. As Somogy Varga argues, genuine authenticity requires a rich sensitivity to moral values that sociopaths lack. See Varga’s Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal (New York: Routledge, 2012).

19. See, inter alia, Heidegger, 439.

20. Ibid., 369.

21. Cicero, How to Grow Old, trans. Philip Freeman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 69.

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