tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post6739990610782809622..comments2024-02-23T04:39:49.329-05:00Comments on Conversations in Klal: Come My Love, Grow Old With MeProfKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-33119971671127548312010-12-06T12:30:07.798-05:002010-12-06T12:30:07.798-05:00Personally grateful that we have all those replace...Personally grateful that we have all those replacement parts today. Otherwise we'd be ending up on a junk heap. Had a knee replacement last year and life is so much better now. Still it kind of freaked me out at how easily the words knee replacement came from the doctor's mouth. 30-40 years ago no one had ever heard of this and today it's just business as usual.BEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-58104323920456124842010-12-06T10:06:41.317-05:002010-12-06T10:06:41.317-05:00JS - interesting and true. Just yesterday I was l...JS - interesting and true. Just yesterday I was looking at some old family photos and I saw a picture of my mother's oldest aunt, who looked like a very elderly lady, taken in the early 1960s - she would have been close to 70 at the time, but she looks much older, especially compared to today's 70 year olds. She probably underwent some suffering and deprivation as a young girl, but after her marriage to a well off man, her life was relatively easy; yet she showed age. She lived into her 90s, but there was no Botox then, and she must have chosen to eschew hair coloring and other tricks that might have made her look younger.<br /><br />There's definitely a culture of youth in this country, and if you look old, even if it's normal for your age, it's considered a problem.<br /><br />Re teeth: I once mentioned my fear of losing my teeth, and a much older relative (who had lost most of his teeth) chimed in that I should hope to live long enough to lose them!tesyaanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-55947991178242276432010-12-06T09:35:47.325-05:002010-12-06T09:35:47.325-05:00Well, to give you some perspective on growing old ...Well, to give you some perspective on growing old nowadays, my father's parents and their families went through the Holocaust. My dad distinctly remembers his mother referring to her own mother (his maternal grandmother) as an old, old lady at the end of the war. Now, I'm sure that what she experienced aged her prematurely, but, it wasn't till many years later that my dad realized his grandmother was only in her late 40's-early 50's at the war's end. In those days, that was an "old, old lady." Nowadays, most people would tell you their lives are just beginning at that age.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-70708611787342742732010-12-06T09:26:57.565-05:002010-12-06T09:26:57.565-05:00Could you find a more depressing topic for a Monda...Could you find a more depressing topic for a Monday morning?! That said, I'm curious. What is the halacha about burying body parts. I've never heard that you have to bury a tooth, but what about other parts? If someone has a heart replacement, does the old heart have to be buried or handled in some special way?<br /><br />Plenty of soldiers unfortunately who lose limbs during battle. Do they have to be buried? And what about those knee replacements? Does the old knee need to be buried? Science and halacha are more married then some people realize and these are questions that are going to come up more frequently in the future.Trudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-3143784352559185522010-12-06T08:46:50.976-05:002010-12-06T08:46:50.976-05:00Isn't science wonderful? Can't remember th...Isn't science wonderful? Can't remember the story name but I read one set in the future where the person who dies is made up of all manmade products by the time of his death. The funeral home debates on whether to bury him or recycle his parts. <br /><br />My grandfather has to carry a copy of his exrays and a letter from his doctor because his hip replacement and knee replacement set off the alarms when he goes thru airport security.Tuvinoreply@blogger.com