The 'Long Run' Is Here: Let's Bury Keynes

In an oft-repeated quote, John Maynard Keynes famously remarked that, â??In the long run, we are all dead.â? The only complication to this statement of course is recognizing when exactly death has occurred. Its inevitability is clear, but what about the possibility of life support? Due to the marvels of modern day science, we can literally keep a body â??aliveâ? for decades after it is pronounced clinically dead.