Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 1 - The Conundrum

  • Barbara A. Reich
  • Book:
    Intimations of Mortality
    Published online:
    10 March 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    Most people want to live long and they want to live well. Quantity of life is experienced through the lens of quality – surviving is not enough without thriving. And the whole idea of quality only exists within the broader reality of the scarcity and uncertainty that is inherent in life. We can acknowledge this truth without allowing it to paralyze us. We can live with the knowledge that life is finite and that its end – in both timing and circumstances – is uncertain. Still, living in constant fear of illness and death can wreck an otherwise good span of years.