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1. These leaders are living proof that prevention works and that we can manage the health
problems that come naturally with age.
2. One argument used to support the idea that employment will continue to be the dominant form
of work, and that employment will eventually become available for all who want it, is that working time will continue to fall.
3. Death is a dramatic, one-time crisis while old age is a day-by-day and year-by-year
confrontation with powerful external and internal forces, a bittersweet coming to terms with one’s own personality and one’s life.
4. Indeed many of the rules, such as how to enter a banquet room, or how to use a sword or
handkerchief for ceremonial purposes, were irrelevant to the way of life of the average working man, who spent most of his life outdoors or in his poor hut and most probably di not have a handkerchief, certainly not a word, to his name.
5. The tragedy of old age is not the fact that each of us must grow old and die but that the
process of doing so has been made unnecessarily and at times excruciatingly painful, humiliating, debilitating and isolating through insensitivity, ignorance and poverty.