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Why outliving your peers creates existential loneliness

My friends are all dying or have dementia and I'm starting to feel like the last person standing from my generation with nobody left who remembers who I used to be.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Surviving one's generational cohort can create profound isolation as the witnesses to one's younger self disappear.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity in old age and approaching death?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.