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> We fear death In the US. It's perhaps the most striking difference that hit me during my stay overseas. In the Old World we occasionally get people completel
by rscho 4y ago
> We fear death
In the US. It's perhaps the most striking difference that hit me during my stay overseas. In the Old World we occasionally get people completely panicking about their own death. In the US, seemingly _everyone_ is like that.
- neonate 4y agoI'd like to hear how elders are treated in these societies that don't fear death as much.
- rscho 4y agoI'd wager: not very differently. But not out of fear. The social isolation of old age is the same everywhere. Young people have their own lives to live.
- neonate 4y ago> The social isolation of old age is the same everywhere That is certainly not true. Traditional societies and non-western societies have far different ways of relating to elders than we do, and even among western societies there are variations.
- rscho 4y agoWell, yes I see what you mean. What I meant was: it's the same in the US and western Europe. But certainly if you go to more "old fashioned" places, the elderly usually live with the family and are taken care of. To be fair, this still happens even in "advanced" western societies. I seem to recall this also goes together with a lot of elderly abuse.
- prenevikdale 4y agoI wonder if elder abuse is correlated with younger people "having their lives to live".