Michael Wolff on the horrors of the 'no-exit state'
(NEWSER) - Brace yourself: In a remarkable cover piece for New York , Newser founder Michael Wolff invites us into his "unimaginable life"—a reality that's as ubiquitous as it is heart-wrenching. Wolff, in his 50s, has had a front-row seat to his 86-year-old mother's "horror show" for the past year and a half, in which she has been rendered unable to walk, talk, or care for herself, devoid of a short-term memory, and stripped of her dignity. Her care clocks in at $17,000 a month, and the long-term care insurance that she had the foresight to purchase pays for less than a third of that. "This is not just a drawn-out, stoic, and heroic long good-bye. This is human carnage," writes Wolff, and it's left him with "a crushing sense of guilt for keeping her alive." More»
