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If it is true that we have 10 extra years of life nowadays, but that eight of them bear more than a shadow of decrepitude and the complicated moral choices inflicted on us by medical advances, we will need to work out how to get more control over the ways there may be of ending it all.

Jane Miller

Writing about my old age is a way of convincing myself that I really am old.

Jane Miller

Old people are often told they're "marvellous" for simply being there and not complaining much. As though our longevity or our susceptibility to disease were entirely up to us, were choices we make.

Jane Miller

Memory is so much better at unhappiness than happiness.

Jane Miller

There are people who see old age as a time of peace, acceptance and the end of strong feeling. I do know old people who seem to have reached a plateau of that sort. They are amused, interested, calm, and they appear to have accepted the inevitability of their distance from a great deal of what goes on in the world.

Jane Miller

If I find it painful getting out of bed in the morning, I am likely to find it harder still in five years' time. Then you have to add that, though that is undoubtedly so, it is also quite possible that you won't be there in five years.

Jane Miller

Jane Miller

Jane Miller

Born: April 27, 1949 (age 76)

Bio: Jane Miller is an American poet.

Known for:

Statistics 1 (International) (2002)
A palace of pearls (2005)
Memory at these speeds (1996)
In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts (2016)

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