The Evening of Life

Fall 2018 / Volume 20 / No. 3

The Evening of Life

Why is our response to aging and dying so inept?

Table of Contents

From the Editor

From the Editor

From the Editors

Notes And Comments

Be Nice

Matt Dinan

Learning from Plants

Amy Wright

“Rivers of Blood” Revisited

Christopher Sandford

Thematic: The Evening of Life

No Country for Old Age

Joseph E. Davis

Off-Label Scripts

James VanOosting

Being There

Wilfred M. McClay

Neglected in the House of Medicine

Justin Mutter

Body on the Altar

Sarah Ruden

The Lost Art of Dying

Thomas Pfau

Essays

The Inner Life of a Sinking Ship

Greg Jackson

Dearly Beloved

Eugene McCarraher

From Memory to Innovation

Colin Wells

When Work and Meaning Part Ways

Jonathan Malesic

Book Reviews

Kicking Against the Pricks

Helen Andrews

Raising Wunderkinder

Rita Koganzon

The Life You Take Won’t Be Your Own

B.D. McClay

Forgiving Heidegger

Nathan Goldman

Beyond the Market

Gerald J. Russello

Crosscutting Lives

Richard Hughes Gibson

Signifiers

Cultural Marxism

Andrew Lynn