Why Survive?: Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler

Why Survive?: Being Old in America

Robert N. Butler

512 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced

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The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions resp...

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