Part of an installation by filmmaker Michael Shindhelm, lamenting the artificial prolongation of women’s lives (below).
Basel Cultural Foundation H. Geiger/KBH.G
The end of aging
Michael Shindhelm
H. Geiger Foundation, Basel, Switzerland, until July 21st
“All disease traces itself to one cause: old age,” wrote the 19th-century essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. And while aging isn’t considered a disease in itself, our risk of developing everything from cancer and dementia to heart disease and arthritis increases with each passing decade.
Aging is also generally associated with a decline in quality of life, and reduced energy levels are a new…
Source: www.newscientist.com
