Do you fear aging?

I don't fear it, because every year the healthcare industry keeps devising new technology to fix a lot of things they couldn't do so well before and our lives keep getting extended longer.

However, you have to ask yourself is it really that great to be alive still at 90 years old or higher? With a few exceptions, you're pretty much totally dependent on others at that age even if you have decent health. So who wants to alive and laid out in a nursing home bed all day long or have to have someone drive you around or push you in a wheelchair?

Living in Florida is tough at times for me emotionally cause you go out and see lots of retired people and some of them look like they are so close to death already you can just feel it. It makes you sad because you can see death so close to them and they are still fighting it, trying to be independent and they can barely walk, barely drive, barely do anything.

I was in a supermarket aisle, and a man who had to be in his late 80's or more was trying to do his shopping alone. His hands were shaking trying to reach and choose his items on the shelf. I offered to help him reach for something and he just looked at me with a pissed off looked and said, "I can get it myself, I don't need anyone to help me." When he reached for the item it just fell out of his hands and onto the floor. I just walked on thinking how sad that stage of life is.

The other shitty part of getting old is watching friends and family start to die off ahead of you. That part just really sucks. You don't have the family get togethers as much because when key members start to go its just not the same and everyone just starts to drift apart.

No I think I'll be better looking when I'm 40 than I am today

my only fear is that I'll be 40 and broke :/

Soul, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I'm 22 and have osteoporosis, hell yea I fear aging. With all the stuff that is wrong with me, I don't think I will make it past 50.
ZoiNk

Piece of cake... you stop aging at 39 and just gain 'experience' after that. lol Chuck Norris said it all the other day... He is 39 with 24 yrs of experience.


There IS a perk too once you hit a certain age... you know you have forgotten more than most 25 yr olds even know. lmao

I'm not afraid of aging, actually. I'm afraid of what comes with it... death. It terrifies me to know that one day I just won't wake up. Ever. I don't want to die and be engulfed into nothingness. It's times like this when I almost wish I could believe in God. *sigh*

i am not scared of getting old cause all of us will reach that age....and besides, every year there are new innovations re: this.

I would be happy if I got the chance to grow old.

Besides there is always plastic surgery

Probably die before i get a chance to get old so no...

I'm not afraid of getting old but I'm afraid of a lot of the things that come along with it, like KRL said.

Losing the many family gatherings. Just being young with cousins and brothers/sisters. The great aunts and uncles I know, my parents, etc. I'm afraid to watch them all go. And it's already begun. It's tough now, I don't even want to imagine it being my parents or sisters... damn.

KRL, that's one of the things I mostly fear. To be unable physically do things while being younger I consider them

normal. I can't think of me being weak....most probably I'll be like the old man you saw in the supermarket. hehe
Our society and we abandon and abuse elder people. That's a major crime. I place it a level below murder.

Tootie the end comes like on Terminator 2. System goes offline :-)

nope

Men often look better when getting older..women usually dont :-/

viagra................so i can be 70 with a hardon........my other half is the one thats gonna fear aging

Hell No

I will be a ruthless athlete all my life I'll still be able to run a lot of miles without stopping even when I'm going to be 70.

i'm with you on this one, tootie. couldn't have said it better.

Ic3m4nZ, most of the ruthless athletes i read about drop dead early. remember jackie joyner?

my ex father in law is 90. he goes to classes 5 days a week, he reads, still does all the things he ever did. that's the 90 i'd like to be!

only thing i fear about getting older is being incapable of things i can do now....if i was one of those old guys that ran in marathons and was fit, i could care less how old i am