Wm. F. Buckley Jr. in his final months was quoted on Charlie Rose as saying that he was ready to pack it in. He could no longer edit, write, sail etc. My mother, as her passing came closer, demonstrated that she no longer had the will to live. When faculities begin to leave you, mental and physical, a melancholia of your inevitable demise comes over you and its one of the saddest things in our lives to experience and observe. There seems to be a disproportion between how important Life itself is and its duration.
you youngsters don't realize that the older folks can still have fun in life: Elderly man with walker robs bank, makes slow getaway 75-year-old suspect arrested 45 minutes after robbery By Frank Luba, Postmedia News August 14, 2010 VANCOUVER - A speedy getaway is usually critical for bank robbers, but perhaps not for an elderly B.C. man who this week held up a bank - and while using a black walker. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news...bs+bank+makes+slow+getaway/3400590/story.html