Are You Lonesome Tonight?

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The experts tell us people all over the developed world are in the throes of a loneliness epidemic. US Public-health officials say that loneliness is now killing more people than smoking. Japanese media tracks “lonely deaths,” bodies of “kinless” men and women left for weeks and months. The British government has even appointed a Minister of Loneliness. This panel maps the terrain of loneliness and shows how dissolving family ties have corroded individual lives and community life, fueling an opioid crisis and “deaths of despair.”