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Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis WSRC, is the author of Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (2017) from which this essay is adapted. Gullette is the author of prize-winning books about the midlife, old age, and ageism, including Agewise, which won an Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Declining to Decline, which won an award as the best feminist book on American popular culture. Her essays are often cited as notable in Best American Essays.

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“Incitement to Suicide” is More Widespread than People Think

by Margaret Morganroth Gullette August 4, 2017

by Margaret Morganroth Gullette August 4, 2017

“Incitement” gets published in an oh-so-reasonable tone, not by teenagers but by important writers with total impunity when older people are the focus.

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