Yea, that's the bad thing about aging. I don't want my(or anyone else's) health and abilities to deteriorate with age. Or at least, not by much.
To me, it seems that the problem with society and its views is not that death is accepted, but that people seem to equate old age with bad health. While I accept that as people age, their abilities deteriorate, I don't think they have to go down so much. It's acceptable to me that an 80-year old is not so flexible and their muscles don't have as much power as a 20-year old, but it's not so acceptable that that person has to take medications daily so that s/he can continue her/his life.
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