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    Seven Decades is an offshoot from Oldsters View which is a news aggregation site specializing in digging out oddities in the news and putting them in a convenient place for you to read them. I try to avoid editorializing on Oldsters View and to keep my own random thoughts to a minimum. So Seven Decades will be the place for that. I hope you will find it interesting, and maybe, sometimes, relevant to your life.
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Sleep, the little death

Why it is that we fear death and seek out sleep? Someone, can’t recall who, once described sleep as the “little death” and when you think about it that is a pretty apt description. So we routinely lose consciousness and find it pleasant but resist mightily the idea or fact of death.
As we age many [...]