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News: How Social Isolation Is Killing Us

PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:00 am
by Noel Tudball

How Social Isolation Is Killing Us - The New York Times

"My patient and I both knew he was dying.
Not the long kind of dying that stretches on for months or years. He would die today. Maybe tomorrow. And if not tomorrow, the next day. Was there someone I should call? Someone he wanted to see?
Not a one, he told me. No immediate family. No close friends. He had a niece down South, maybe, but they hadn’t spoken in years.
For me, the sadness of his death was surpassed only by the sadness of his solitude. I wondered whether his isolation was a driving force of his premature death, not just an unhappy circumstance.

Every day I see variations at both the beginning and end of life: a young man abandoned by friends as he struggles with opioid addiction; an older woman getting by on tea and toast, living in filth, no longer able to clean her cluttered apartment. In these moments, it seems the only thing worse than suffering a serious illness is suffering it alone."

More at source: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/upshot/how-social-isolation-is-killing-us.html?mc=adglobal&mcid=facebook&subid1=AU&mccr=eng&subid=pay&_r=1
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