Dying Young

July 15

We think it’s a tragedy when anyone dies before he or she is 80 because that’s what we've been taught by society, and this seems to be the expectation in the developed world where modern medicine has solved a host of problems that would have killed us a century ago.

My wife died suddenly in her 40s from a heart problem we didn’t know about. Her doctors had never cautioned us, and it felt wrong because I seldom heard about people dying that young. 


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