"For
me, the sadness of his death was surpassed only by the sadness of his
solitude. I wondered whether his isolation was a driving force of his
premature death, not just an unhappy circumstance.
Every
day I see variations at both the beginning and end of life: a young man
abandoned by friends as he struggles with opioid addiction; an older
woman getting by on tea and toast, living in filth, no longer able to
clean her cluttered apartment. In these moments, it seems the only thing
worse than suffering a serious illness is suffering it alone."
--"How Social Isolation is Killing Us," by Dhruv Khullar, the New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/upshot/how-social-isolation-is-killing-us.html?_r=0)
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