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| | --- Reply above this line to comment on this post --- We have much to learn from people who have led long, happy lives. The inexorable process of human aging is depriving us of one of the most extraordinary groups of human beings that has ever lived: America's older generation. The last veteran of World War I has died; those of World War II are now in their 80s. The youngest children of the Great Depression have reached their late 70s. When this generation has passed, where will we go to recover the lessons they learned about life? For five years, Karl Pillemer has collected the advice and wisdom of over a thousand of our elders — "experts," as he calls them — about surviving and thriving in a difficult world. Here is what eight of them had to say. Full story at The Week. Photo: CC by The Wedding Traveler All the top stories from The Week. | | | |
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