We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
The last remaining thing that must be communicated to the next generation is an aging figure that still continues to change.