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Four scenarios for an aging society.

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From: The Hastings Center Report
Date: 19940901
Author:Moody, Harry R.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift gives a portrait of the Struldbruggs, a race condemned to immortality without the blessing of good health: "They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld. . . . Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described."

Do the Struldbruggs conjure up a gloomy image of our own future? There is reason to think so. Modem health care permits growing numbers of people to live to advanced age under circumstances that call into question the ...

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