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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is certainly ideal for people to declutter throughout the their lives, and in anticipation of their death…I also think those who have not faced old age should be slow to judge.

You have numbered days  and less energy as you get old. You may also hope that the younger generation will value family heirlooms and mementos. You may find it isolating and depressing to spend your final days on the planet cleaning out all evidence of your existence. If you have devoted your whole life to others, maybe you want to do something more enjoyable with your waning days or energy.

Not justifying leaving a mess,  but just trying to open younger people’s minds to why this may happen. [/quote]

Plus [b]those mementos are often what’s sustaining you through your later years[/b].  The people and places are gone, and those old theater programs or what not is your chance to reminisce of what has been.  It’s cruel to demand that people vanish without a trace in order to make your life more convenient.[/quote]

These later years shouldn't be "sustained."     We've become a sick deranged society where a purposeless, joyless life is prolonged far too extreme.  [/quote]

So, in your view, people over the age of what 60? 70? should just kill themselves rather than "prolong far too extreme" their joyless life? [/quote]

Kill themselves?  Of course not! 
But hording old theater programs in an attempt to "sustain" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sustain) themselves is absurd.[/quote]

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