This is why we have to fix aging
The NY Times reviews a doco called “Living Old”.
“Living Old” is not a bad documentary, filled as it is with lively and less lively old folks and facts galore about chronic diseases, physical decline and nonagenarians and their overburdened 70-something children. It puts on display the suffering that awaits us all, which is important, in its way, but also troublesome.
Only troublesome if we don’t do something about it. One of the documentary’s subjects sums it up perfectly:
Mr. Haak’s [says] “I don’t really look forward to anything; old age is for the birds.”
Yep.
