Originally Posted by kerry

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/opinion/31jacoby.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

I agree with Jacoby that the prospects of very old age are not good. Claude Levy-Strauss who died at 100+ years had similar thoughts about the concluding years of his life. My father-in-law who died this year at 90+ who was an active walker and who was confined to a bed in a nursing home for the last couple of years of his life, finally just stopped eating to get it over with.