Death and Aging in Technopolis: Towards a Role Definition of Wisdom

Journal of Value Inquiry 10 (3):161-177 (1976)
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Abstract

In this paper I will argue that our own society's philosophy of death and dying has a largely negative effect on public policies towards the elderly, and that these policies will be changed for the better when and if we come to appreciate our elderly as the principal sources of our collective wisdom. Towards these ends, I shall consider in turn some basic types of theories about death, some basic attitudes towards dying and the duration of dying, some models of aging as they affect and/or embody attitudes towards old age, and finally the place of creative expansion in one's advanced years.

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Edmund Byrne
Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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