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The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 21, No. 1, October 2015
Book Review: Making Friends with Death
Authors: Dhananjay Joshi and Arun Jatkar. Available at
Amazon.com $12.00. 65 pages, 2015. Self publsihed.
A social change of great significance that has been sweeping the world
is the emergence of industrialized world’s model of the nuclear family
(husband-wife-children) as the basic societal building block, with support
from laws, regulations, conventions, and social networking among citizens.
So, in urban centers socioeconomically similar nuclear families by and
large live in clusters segregated on the basis of wealth and income. We
live cherishing our privacy, not realizing that privacy is a sophisticated
term in good times for isolation and solitude. We realize this only when
we encounter turbulences such as involuntary career transitions (aka losing
jobs), financial losses, and divorces — the changes that we are often
embarrassed to share with our social friends.
Or when we face unexpected healthcare issues needing 24/7 long-term
care, or the death of our near and dear. Complicating this, the cost of longterm
care has been soaring drawing the attention of everybody. In the US,
Medicare as it exists today simply is unsustainable. Personal savings of even
the “middle class” families are not enough for prolonged long-term care.
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