Aging: A Life-Span View (Human Development)

How did your life begin? How did you go from a single cell-about the size of the period at the end of a sentence in this text-to the fully grown, complex adult person you are today? Will you be the same or different by the time you reach late life? How do you influence other people's lives? How do they influence yours? How do the various roles you have throughout life-child, teenager, partner, spouse, parent, worker, grandparent-shape your development? How do we deal with our own and others' deaths?