All posts tagged: 75-year-old

“The Golden Bachelor” Caps a Year of Second-Chance Romances

“The Golden Bachelor” Caps a Year of Second-Chance Romances

Before the final reveal of any Bachelor season, the franchise briefly halts its frenetic march toward matrimony. During the show’s recurring “The Women Tell All” special, the eliminated contestants gather to dish about the drama that developed as they collectively dated one man. Typically, the women revisit moments both heartfelt and salacious, rehashing their intra-group fights and reflecting on the pain of romantic rejection. They tend to dwell on their past slights, often to the point of utter absurdity; sometimes, they don’t seem ready to move on, whether from the man himself or from their time in the Bachelor Nation spotlight. The Golden Bachelor, the franchise’s first-ever season led by a man over 40, flips this script. On this season’s installment of “The Women Tell All,” the cast of women—all of whom are 60 to 75 years old—talk about their time dating Gerry Turner, a 72-year-old widower from Indiana. Like contestants from previous seasons, they gamely reminisce on the moments of conflict, hilarity, and connection that emerged during their journeys. But unlike the 20- and …

The Enigma of ‘Heat-Related’ Deaths

The Enigma of ‘Heat-Related’ Deaths

The autopsy should have been a piece of cake. My patient had a history of widely metastatic cancer, which was pretty straightforward as far as causes of death go. Entering the various body cavities, my colleague and I found what we anticipated: Nearly every organ was riddled with tumors. But after we had completed the work, I realized that I knew why the patient had died, but not why he’d died that day. We found no evidence of a heart attack or blood clot or ruptured bowel. Nothing to explain his sudden demise. Yes, he had advanced cancer—but he’d been living with that cancer the day before he died, and over many weeks and months preceding. I asked my colleague what he thought. Perhaps there had been some subtle change in the patient’s blood chemistry, or in his heart’s electrical signaling, that we simply couldn’t see? “I guess the patient just up and died,” he said. I’m a hospital pathologist; my profession is one of many trying to explain the end of life. In that …