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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are you OP?  Do you have kids?  I started to think about this when I had kids around age 40.  I also always had a sense that you get one life to live even in my 20s and I accomplished some bucket list items very early on.  Tomorrow is promised to no one.  It's just that as you get older and have more life experiences and know more people you realize that yes that terrible thing can happen to you (death/disability/illness/death of a close person or friend etc).[/quote]

I'm 40 and yes, I've already had kids.  I guess I have a hard time imagining it because I've always been so future oriented, I can't imagine what it's like to be old and realize that I probably don't even have five years left.  [b]I mean how do you deal with that? Just try not to think about it, or are people that age generally at the point where they feel ready to die because they feel like their time for being here has passed?[/b] [/quote]

You have several answers above. Did you perhaps miss them?

Some elderly people will be depressed or have other problems that make them ruminate as you do and how you imagine they all must. Many of them are too busy enjoying their lives to focus on death and being "ready to die."

My grandfather was a midwestern farmer who was out on his tractor until he was 95. He wasn't concerned about dying, other than making the plans we all should (wills, etc.). He was focused on getting the crops in, and having a good meal with those who visited, and -- I don't know -- doing his laundry and such.

Your inability to accept that elders are not having to fight unhappiness and depression is about you, not them.

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