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“There is something inherently mysterious and psychologically disturbing about aging,” says journalist Rick Weiss, “something that even the best science cannot address.” Weiss’s article “Aging: New Answers to Old Questions,” appears in the November 1997 issue.
What is that elusive “something”? What makes aging—a fate for which there is but one alternative—so frightening to so many? Do we fear becoming prisoners of ailing bodies? Do we dread moving to the margins of a society that worships supermodels? Do we flee
any hint of mortality? Read Weiss’s essay and offer your own reflections.
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