Age Poem by Aparna Chatterjee

Age



Is thirty-four
An age to go?

No.

But he went

Leaving behind
A daughter without
A father....



(I wrote this after reading about Octavian-Eugen Ganea, an MIT postdoc AI researcher who died at age 34 while hiking in French Polynesia on May 26,2022. He was supposed to join New York University this Autumn as TTA professor.)

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Aparna Chatterjee 14 July 2022

Yes, it's very sad to hear these stories.

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Nothing stops to change fate. Sure, thirty four is no age to die. I used to link cancer with old age. But, when I had a visit to a cancer hospital recently, I found that even cancer has no relation with age. I found children, very young…

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