We are all still born, struggle through puberty, stumble through a first job, fall in love. Last I checked, we all still die too. What has changed is the knowledge, method, and language for living. “The longer we live, the longer we die,” Lepore writes near the closing pages. She could also say: the more we know about living, the harder living becomes.
Austen Rosenfeld “A Matter of Life and Death: Jill Lepore’s The Mansion of Happiness”
