Embrace Mortality

If you fear death (or are preoccupied with ensuring that people remember you after you’re gone), you won’t be able to live fully.

However, if you’ve confronted your mortality, can accept your life as a passing grain in the timelessness of the universe, and can focus on cont...

If one assumes that old people are unproductive consumers of government benefits, then a rising OADR can be problematic. But, policymakers only focus on chronological age, while the sociological components of ageing have shifted over time.

Two factors drive averag...

The standard chronological measure of age makes less sense because the biological age has changed in relation to chronological age.

In the US, a 75-year-old today has the same mortality rate as a 65-year-old in 1952. In Japan, 80 is the new 65. This brings a very different perspective on ...