THE HEADLINE READS “DECLARING INDEPENDENCE.” On the front page of the Sunday Sacramento Bee (7-8-12) the color photograph of five older adults laughing shows what the 82-inch story proceeds to tell. Among this friendly group of residents at the Eskaton Roseville Manor multiservice community, are Jackie and Bill Merz. When asked about offers from their kids to come live with them, Jackie exclaimed that as much as she adores them, “I told them we’d have somebody shoot us before we did that.”
