Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.
No one will die if they don't know how old I am.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.