Is Life After 75 worth Living? This UPenn Scholar Doubts It

August 26, 2019

(Big Think) – Emanuel has declared he will refuse medical interventions, antibiotics, and vaccinations once he turns 75. The crux of his argument is that older Americans are living too long in a disabled and “diminished” state of life. He wants to make his friends and others think about how they want to live as they grow older, as he put it, “I want them to think of an alternative to succumbing to that slow constriction of activities and aspirations imperceptibly imposed by aging.” There are some experts today that are still opposed to this kind of thinking. Ageism activist and writer, Ashton Applewhite, finds a great deal of unsubstantiated claims in Emanuel’s argument.