The Importance of Observing the End of Life

John Sutter: We simply can't accept the finite nature of our lives. Most people have a sense of I've got less than 10 years to go, he says. But we just irrationally block it out and say, that's not going to be me, writes Sutter. In other words, you're telling me that you want to fly another two miles but only 500 yards in the air? He asks patients to pick their marginal decade exercise for centenarian decathlon.