Should We Even Want to Live Past 110?

Paul Cooper, the grandson of Besse Cooper, who wore the oldest-living-person-on-Earth mantle in 2012, summed up for me the zeitgeist’s love-hate relationship with extreme longevity: “People would say ‘That’s amazing,”’ he said of the reactions to his grandmother, who died at 116. “Then in the next breath, they would say, ‘I don’t want to live that long.”’

Knowing when to leave
the party is a welcome
trait in any guest.

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