“Gramma was 77-years old, which is still young in my opinion. I think it’s wonderful that she lived a reasonably long and full life, but her death still seems like such a waste. A lot of rationalizing goes on during times like these; we are socialized to feel less saddened by the death of an elderly person than, say, the death of a child. This kind of thinking disguises the fact that every death is a terrible tragedy.

And then there’s that whole aging process. Aging doesn’t just kill us, it kills us horribly. Sitting next to my mother-in-law in the hospital I was outraged — outraged at all those who feel we shouldn’t interfere with the aging process; outraged at all those who obstruct research into life extending medical technologies; outraged at all those who are blind to horrors of aging.” — George Dvorsky