One of the things not in our control, but in the control of nature, is aging, and eventually death, the final act of our being.

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Today, the goal of understanding happiness and well-being, beyond philosophical interest, is part of a broad inquiry into aging and why some people avoid early death and disease.

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"Amour, " about an aging couple dealing with dementia and death, won the prize for best foreign film, as was expected.

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She imagined the wife watching Walter and herself aging, waiting to endure his death, aware that the solitude afterward would be enough of a compensation.

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Now the newspaper industry seems locked into a stately death spiral of declining circulation and aging demographics.

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The reason for the shortfall: A decline in supply occasioned by the long-term fall in the car accident death rate has coincided with a growth in demand occasioned by aging demographics and breakthroughs in medicine.

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