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“This morning, police in the small village of X responded to an emergency call about the death of a 75-year-old man. The death appears to be a suicide.” Is it possible to reconstruct the unique, personal story behind this cold newspaper report? These few sentences tell of only one moment in the life of a man afflicted by a painful, degenerative disease (the label given to it is...
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Read in Utne Reader, 01/27/2010«The architecture magazine Dwell always strives for aesthetic heights with its often dour and stark photographs of beautiful, expensive homes. The blog Unhappy Hipsters pokes some good-natured fun at Dwell’s photos by writing pithy captions that turn each photograph into a story with just a few words. According to the blog’s tagline, “It’s lonely in the...
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“This morning, police in the small village of X responded to an emergency call about the death of a 75-year-old man. The death appears to be a suicide.” Is it possible to reconstruct the unique, personal story behind this cold newspaper report? These few sentences tell of only one moment in the life of a man afflicted by a painful, degenerative disease (the label given to it is...
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«Two recent studies suggest that our society is in the midst of a dramatic and progressive slide toward disconnection. In the first, using data from the General Social Survey (GSS), Duke University researchers found that between 1985 and 2004 the number of people with whom the average American discussed “important matters” dropped from three to two. Even more stunning, the number of people...
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The shades of the small room with the parking lot view were drawn and the stale air of the nursing home stopped me in my tracks at the doorway. I looked at the familiar knickknacks that godmother Martha has chosen to surround herself with here in what is sure to be the last place she lives. I think perhaps it is a blessing that she has lost her sight. At least she can't see how the dim light...
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The Gift of Peace Abraham's House as I call it, is officially known here in Jerusalem as the hospice of 'St. Vincent de Paul'. It is a big institution run by the Daughters of Charity just beside Jaffa Gate. It welcomes old age people, abandoned children and people with intellectual disabilities. I have had the joy of meeting the group of men with a handicap who live there. There are eight...
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The number of people living alone has increased in Canada over the last 20 years, in large part because of the aging population. One-person households have risen from about one-fifth of households in 1981 to one-quarter in 2001. In 2001, there were about as many one-person households in Canada (2,976,875) as there were households with four or more persons (2,938,455). Close to 3 out of...
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Subscribers in Canada: 22 millions, in the U.S : 270 millions, in France: 58 millions, in Algeria 32 millions, in Marocco: 31 millions «At what cost is technology replacing personal contact?» asked Jack Cafferty in his blog on CNN.
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We could not translate Helene Laberge's article, L'Ange de pierre: du défi à l'abandon. This novel deserves a place in a site on belonging. We dream of an essay whose title could be: Stone Angel or the tragedy of the nursing home for the elderly. "Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in...
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ONE in ten people in France lives in solitude and a quarter have only the most basic links to family or friends, a new report has revealed. The issue of solitude came up in 2003 after the deadly heatwave in which thousands of old people died at home alone. Social Networking Sites do not compensate for the lack or real encounters.

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