Authors: Jane Fonda
Tags: #Aging, #Gerontology, #Motion Picture Actors and Actresses - United States, #Social Science, #Rejuvenation, #Aging - Prevention, #Aging - Psychological Aspects, #Motion Picture Actors and Actresses, #General, #Personal Memoirs, #Jane - Health, #Self-Help, #Biography & Autobiography, #Personal Growth, #Fonda
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CHAPTER 20:
Facing Mortality
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Joan Halifax,
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Spring 2008, p. 8.
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Here’s another option instead of cremation: I’ve read that a Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. The company claims that this “ecological burial” will decompose in six to twelve months.
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(New York: Berkley, 1997), p. 78.
CHAPTER 21:
The Work In
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(London: Routledge, 1980), p. 49.
APPENDIX I:
Summary of Main Areas of Anti-Aging Research
1
Robert N. Butler,
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(New York: International Longevity Center).
APPENDIX V:
Guide to Mindful Meditation
1
Elizabeth Lesser,
Broken Open.
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From the archives of the
Women’s Collection,
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas.
PERMISSION CREDITS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
DR. LAURA CARSTENSEN
: Excerpts from an interview between Jane Fonda and Dr. Laura Carstensen. Reprinted by permission of Dr. Laura Carstensen.
ENLIGHTENNEXT MAGAZINE
: Excerpt from an interview with Dr. Jean Houston by Amy Edelstein from April 1999. Reprinted by permission of
EnlightenNext
magazine.
DR. DENISE C. PARK
: Excerpt from a speech given by Dr. Denise C. Park. Re-printed by permission of Dr. Denise C. Park.
PHILLIP PERALTAR
: Excerpt from a letter from Millicent Rogers to her son, Paulie. Reprinted by permission of Phillip Peraltar.
ALFRED A. KNOPF, A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC
.: Excerpt from “The low road” from
The Moon Is Always Female
by Marge Piercy, copyright © 1980 by Middlemarsh, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
: Excerpts from
Aging Well
by George E. Vaillant, M.D., copyright © 2002 by George E. Vaillant, M.D. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company.
LSU PRESS
: “Monet Refuses the Operation” from
Alive Together
by Lisel Mueller, copyright © 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 by Lisel Mueller. Reprinted by permission of LSU Press.
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
: Excerpts from
Passionate Marriage
by David Schnarch, copyright © 1997 by David Schnarch. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company.
VILLARD BOOKS, A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC
.: Excerpts from
Broken Open
by Elizabeth Lesser, copyright © 2004 by Elizabeth Lesser. Reprinted by permission of Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Index
Aamodt, Sandra
Academy Awards,
11.1
,
11.2
,
21.1
accumulation phase,
18.1
,
18.2
Act I
age span for
as beginning of life review
brain in
change and
childhood in
education during
Fonda’s life review of,
2.1
,
3.1
gathering in
gender identity and,
3.1
,
10.1
life review of,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
10.1
,
10.2
Act II
age span for
breakdown during
change and
fertile void during
finances in
Fonda’s life review of,
2.1
,
3.1
hormones during
perfection and
productivity during
self during
as time of building and in-betweenness
transitions during,
4.1
,
4.2
Act III
becoming whole during
collecting dividends in
diet in
Fonda’s goals for
gender identity and
having a purpose and
life review as preparation for
loneliness as problem in
love in
preparation for,
4.1
,
4.2
purpose of
rite of passage to
sex in,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
13.1
,
14.1
activism/activists
actors
fertile void of
personal meltdowns of
addictions,
1.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
14.1
,
22.1
adolescence
being perfect and
brain during
doing a life review and
gender identity during,
3.1
,
10.1
generativity projects and
aerobic activity,
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
7.1
,
21.1
,
21.2
,
22.1