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What does aging have in store for our appearance ? Baldness, wrinkles, blubbery arms, potbellies, drooping eyelids, facial hair (for women, and it is worse if you are not used to it), grey hair, varicose veins, breasts (for men, and it is worse if you are not used to it), sagging breasts (women), erection problems and the female equivalent, bottoms that have lost much of their past allure, dentures…. some of these will inevitably hit us all, if we age.
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de Beaufort, I. (2013). Will You… When I’m Sixty Four?. In: Schermer, M., Pinxten, W. (eds) Ethics, Health Policy and (Anti-) Aging: Mixed Blessings. Ethics and Health Policy, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3870-6_15
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