[ExI] NYT: Happiness May Come With Age, Study Says

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 21:43:39 UTC 2010


On 6/2/10, The Avantguardian wrote:
>
> While both Spike and Bill make good points, I doubt the authors of the NYT article,
> or the researchers they mentioned, interviewed any elderly in nursing homes.

It was a telephone poll, so they probably phoned people at home, who
would probably be reasonably healthy.

<snip description of nursing home horrors>


Sick people at any age are generally not too happy with the way life
is treating them. The geriatric sick have very little to look forward
to.

(On the other hand, I have heard good stories about hospice care for
the terminally ill).

So I agree that my comments assume old age and good health.


BillK



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