Rocking chairs: praise of old age
- Ariane Bilheran
- Aug 1
- 14 min read
La Licorne (The Unicorn) No. 17 by Ariane Bilheran, August 1, 2025.
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During my Neoplatonic Academies in the spring of 2025, I had the joy of welcoming Lise, an 80-year-old Canadian, who gave me the immense gift of sharing her secrets with me. These secrets are a resolution to allow us to accept old age, this path that awaits us all (barring an early accident in life), which we so often fear, which our society does not want to hear about, since it flees the degradation of our body of flesh like a pestilential disease.
Philosophically, it is not just a matter of learning how to die, but also how to grow old and face the various limitations that our body is gradually destined to confront us with.
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