Famous Actress on the Pain of Aging

Kristin Scott Thomas, the British-born actress who was nominated for an Oscar (The English Patient), talked about the pressure of growing older in a culture ...

Comparing Our Bodies to an Amusement Park Ride

The Week magazine runs a column called "What's Next?," a regular contest based on current events. In a recent issue they asked readers to ...

Colorado Festival Tries to Mock Death

How do people in our culture deal with the reality of death? One way is to mock death, as though somehow by thumbing our nose at it, we can prevent it ...

'Death Cafes' Provide Safe Place to Discuss Death

No one wants to talk about death at the dinner table, at a soccer game, or at a party, says Lizzy Miles, a social worker from Columbus, Ohio. But sometimes ...

Rembrandt Captured the Goodness of Old Age

According to the British art critic Jonathan Jones, many Renaissance artists were "coldly curious" or even cruel in their depictions of old ...

Woody Allen Reflects on Old Age and Death

A 2012 interview with the actor and film director Woody Allen states that "Allen has been confronting the horror of mortality … since he was ...

Old Friends Can't Remember Last Restaurant

This is a story of 30-year-old friends who had a reunion and were discussing where they should go for dinner. Somebody suggested that they meet at the ...

85-year-old Woman Fights Off Her Husband's Attacker—a Moose

Alaskan Dorothea Taylor, 85, and her husband George Murphy, 82, got into a tussle with a moose while taking their golden retrievers, Fellar and Tut, out ...

78-year-old Christian Leader Renews His Commitment to Christ

Soon after the publication of John Stott's 1971 revised edition of Basic Christian, he received a letter that read:

Dear John,

Thank you for writing ...

Billy Graham on the Opportunities of Old Age

In his book Nearing Home, Billy Graham offers the following advice about the opportunities in growing older:

When Coca-Cola changed its one-hundred-year-old ...