Leon R. Kass, in The American Scholar (Spring For Death 1973), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Arresting the aging process and prolonging human life are top priori- ties of medical researchers. At first glance, such efforts seem an unqual- ified good, but Kass, a University of Chicago biologist, is troubled some of their implications.
The aging process, he says, prepares us for death. "Inasmuch as I no longer cling so hard to the good things of life when I begin to lose the use and...