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“IT wouldn’t do us a whole boatload of harm to reinstate some values to contemplation. Part of the pressure on older people to be successful and give back and volunteer and be active and play tennis is that we are a culture of doing. We don’t really know how to be. That’s something that late life gives us, is time to be. But that’s stigmatized.”

—Anne Basting, director of the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, commenting to the New York Times.