Quote from Advice for Future Corpses

Advice for Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them: A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

by Sallie Tisdale

Gallery Books, New York, New York, 2018        240 pages

We share a grand social agreement about mortality.  We choose not to notice, if we can.  I was born in the U.S. in 1957, the largest cohort of baby boomers.  We've been a most fortunate generation, and also one of the most delusional.  We are energetically trying not to be as old as we are, to not look old, feel old, and, most all, to not be perceived as old.  The worship of an ideal, youthful immortality is nothing new: the Greeks were obsessed with it, and perhaps all humans are, to some extent.  But my generation seems both more protected from the fact of aging and less resigned to it.  We spin our mornings and evenings away, concentrating on the body, our body, my body, without actually looking very deeply at body and all it means.  (p. 6)

-- quote submitted by Jack Y.

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