I am eighty-six and all my friends are dead and my children are busy with their lives and I am ready to die but my body keeps going and I feel trapped in loneliness.
More people experience this than they realize.
The elderly person experiences the cruelty of isolation prolonged beyond their emotional capacity to endure.
“Where Are You with Mortality as teacher — death as clarifying force?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.