Soumitra Chatterjee: India acting legend dies, aged 85

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71 points·brudgers··13 comments

A sad but inevitable day. He was one of the last remnant of a by-gone era in Bengali films, when even a budget-constrained industry like ours gave us works that even today are counted among the greats.

“ has died from Covid complications”

At what age do we add “inevitable”?

6 more months and we’ll have a vaccine. Let’s hang in there and delay the inevitable.

Ah didn't mean it in the sense that it was inevitable because he had Covid, more like it was inevitable since his condition has been deteriorating at a slow but steady pace over the past few weeks since he was hospitalized.

Yes, Coronavirus tends to do that to older people. I suppose we say that so we don’t feel as bad when an older person dies.

In the United States, many people have been lessening the disease by rationalizing that it’s mostly older people or people with comorbidities.

Doesn’t it sound like we are subconsciously writing people off?

It gets exponentially more expensive to prolong an old person's life. At some point you gotta draw a line and say "sorry, you had a good run"

But that applies to basically anything that can kill you right? If you are older or are unhealthy, you are more likely to die of heart disease, cancer, stroke, colds, flus, diabetes, alzheimer's, even car accidents.

If anything, a disease that disproportionately affects old people and sick people sounds less alarming than one that disproportionately affects young people and healthy people.

A great loss.

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