Richard Strauss was the ultimate professional, even in the planning of his own life span.
"You really learn very little about your own life span from your parents' life spans," Dr. Vaupel said.
Her stories, of course, present specific landscapes — generally the places that she has lived, in rural Ontario or urban British Columbia — and specific time periods, usually within her own life span.
Even though the reformocons recognize the difficulties of the middle class, they prefer to focus not on income disparities but on "mobility," which describes how individuals fare across their own life span and in comparison with past generations.
Bukowski was such a prolific writer that his production outstripped his own life span; numerous collections of his previously unpublished poetry appeared posthumously, such as Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005) and The People Look Like Flowers At Last 20077).
"Every living thing of the ocean, plant and animal alike, returns to the water at the end of its own life span the materials which had been temporarily assembled to form its body," Carson once wrote.
