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Haim Hazan * 36 some of the old is rendered defunct, but rather that it becomes increasingly untenable to the non - aged listener as a reflectively anchored discourse . Thus, gerontologists are left with little choice but to consider the often malfunctioning, observable body as almost the only template for relating to the being - in - the - world of the elderly subject . This amounts to adopting a monistic mode of understanding old a ge through its performed corporality . The very old person is thus turned into “barely alive” or a “living corpse . ” Stripped of any symbolic embellishments, the very old, as a metonymic representation of death, impedes the anthropological pursuit of otherness in forms that can be reconstructed, negotiated, revoked, and re - inherited as one of “us” humans . Hence, the unadulterated old have no recognizable culture nor are they even conceived of as objects for veneration, sacrifice or sacred killing . Impacted in the cultural fie nd of the savagery of Alz...
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