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# Notes From the End of a Very Long Life by New York's Oldest
- URL: https://werd.io/notes-from-the-end-of-a-very-long-life-by/
- Published: 2022-01-08T00:42:13.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-08T00:42:13.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“At the end of each year, I asked the elders if they were glad to have lived it. Did the year have value to them? Always the answer was the same, even from those, including Ruth, who had said during the year that they were ready to go, that they wished for an end sooner rather than later. Yes, they said, yes, it was worth living.”

\[[Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/nyregion/ruth-willig-oldest-new-yorkers.html)\]