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The Last Gift of Time Life Beyond Sixty

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

As a young woman, Carolyn Heilbrun made a resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would lend clean closure to a life well lived, and would keep her from the many tragedies of aging--becoming a burden to her children, witnessin...

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Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as a book written by Carolyn Heilbrunn after she decided to postpone her planned suicide at age 70, and it was about life after 60.

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She even wrote a book called The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond 60.

— Episode: The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast )

Episode: The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast )

It was mentioned as a book written by Carolyn Heilbrunn after she decided to postpone her planned suicide at age 70, and it was about life after 60.

"

She even wrote a book called The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond 60.

Episode: The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast)

It was written by the mother of Margaret Heilbrunn, who also spoke about her mother's decision to end her life at a certain age, and how her views evolved before she ultimately took her own life.

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She even wrote a book called The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond 60.

Episode: 40. The Suicide Paradox

It was a book written by Carolyn Heilbrunn about life after 60, despite her later decision to take her own life at 77, having lived past the age of 70 where she had previously stated she'd end her life.

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She even wrote a book called The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond 60.

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