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By: Deodatus

Age, like all aspects of life, is coloured and even made brilliant by the quality of care and community in which it is lived.  Without this or in a situation where age is demeaned, or considered by...

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By: Jonathan West

Would that Savita Halappanavar had been given the opportunity to grow old. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/14/savita-halappanavar-medically-unnecessary-death

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By: KyPerson

Thank you so much for your kind words and my prayers are with you.  I am in my sixties and am in excellent health (so far).  I am my father’s caregiver and while he is mobile, he can’t tell you what he...

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By: Saharbashir

i am very impress about that words by Pope Benedict XVI ( One who makes room for the elderly, makes room for life,” the pope said. “One who welcomes the elderly, welcomes life.”)

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By: StCalder

There’s nothing “wonderful” about being old when you have to survive the winter worrying about how you are going to feed yourself and heat your home – something you know NOTHING about, having lived in...

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By: catholic reporter

OPEN LETTER TO POPE BENEDICT XVI:- Dear Your Holiness, 1. The transition at the Chinese leadership passed but without congratulations from your office. It was a great pity. The Chinese Communist Party...

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By: Sweetjae

Nonsense. Why dont you say that to your Prime Minister and others who are getting paid on money by people less fortunate that themselves.The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization in...

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By: Elle

It will come to us all (or at least those of us who reach old age), and to some (those who are older already) it will come sooner than for others (eg; the young).

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By: Jon Brownridge

 Very well said, Sweetjae.

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By: Arden Forester

I’d say it was “wonderful being old” if you have all your marbles or have lost them completely. My horror is being somewhere in the middle.

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