Reflections on Mortality and the Passage of Time
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moultano
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Summary
The article reflects on mortality and the passage of time through personal and historical perspectives. It begins with the death of the world's oldest person, Nabi Tajima at 117, then moves to the author's personal reflections on aging, using their father's life and death as a focal point. The piece explores how entire generations disappear, the inevitability of death, and the psychological impact of recognizing one's own mortality as the true 'biological clock' rather than reproductive timelines.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledEveryone who was 47 years old when my father was born is now dead. All of them. That entire group of middle-aged people, who made up the adult world when my father was a child, is gone.
Maybe the year 1900 sounds far away, to you. It comes closer.
My father is dead, now, too.
In April, in a small town on a small island in a small string of islands trailing down from the main part of Japan, the world's then-oldest person died.
Nabi Tajima was 117 years old—the last surviving human being born in the 19th century.
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