Once youth is spent aren't we more afraid of living than dying?

Question

i am thinking of dalton trumbo's "johnny got his gun." i am also thinking of my grandmother whose body was falling apart and my aunt who was agonizing with breast cancer that mercifully spread to her liver and mercifully killed her quickly. whose is so naive to urge living on no matter what? only religiouis zealots i guess. life is for the young and possibly for the very rich. life is an endless struggle to ease the suffering. life is best for a baby who is smiling and laughing. it is the same for all animals. aging changes all that. there are odd exceptions but rarely. do you see it differently?

Answer 1

I am 74 years old and enjoying life yet. I see youth "enjoying themselves" and remember my youth and I know I am happier than they are. Of course if there is a lot of physical pain then life might be less enjoyable as one would take morphine or something to ease it. But isn't that exactly what the young are doing with their drugs? I don't understand why because we are in a country with a high standard of living and they have no physical pain. I have an aunt who is 94 and a cousin 96, both enjoying life still. We are not rich we have just discovered real love.

Answer 2

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