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Dear Life; QE57 by Karen Hitchcock science-and-technology Mount Olympus to the ruinsIn this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end of life decisions, frailty and dementia, over treatment and escalating costs. Ours is a society in which ageism, often disguised, threatens to turn the elderly into a burden difficult, hopeless, expensive and homogenous. While we