![]() “In giving up on preventative care, I’m just taking this line of thinking a step further: Not only do I reject the torment of a medicalized death, but I refuse to accept a medicalized life, and my determination deepens with age.” Mortality is not a philosophical dilemma one needs to ponder endlessly, Ehrenreich assures us, and death, after several decades on earth, should not be feared or avoided. ![]() ![]() “I gradually came to realize that I was old enough to die.” At the relatively healthy age of 76 (she survived breast cancer in 2000 when she was 58), Ehrenreich decides to investigate America’s obsession with living longer and healthier, and in the process, critiques the push for screenings, annual exams and scans for asymptomatic senior citizens like herself, and graciously accepts her station in life. ![]() The critically acclaimed book shed light on the consequences harsh economic policies have on workers barely getting by.Įhrenreich’s latest book, “Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer,” sounds promising enough. In her 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,” journalist Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover as an employee in several minimum-wage jobs (waitress, hotel maid, nursing home aide, etc.) to expose the reality of those earning wages so low they can’t afford to feed, shelter, clothe or meet their health care needs. ![]()
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