getting older knowing won't live forever

[zeemiller]

when accepting your getting older and knowing you won't live forever how does this make you feel??
realising how quick time goes and seeing how the world continues and seeing younger people etc does this make you think of getting older etc???
just random questions i know but will read comments with interest
thanks for reading my msg 8-)

[sad sack]

Doesn't bother me TBH...

I'm ready to die... I have been for a while.

I've never really understood why people seem so worried and upset about death... it's an important part of life.

Beelzebub can come and get me whenever he is ready.

 $%$ $%$ $%$ $%$

[Zaf]

Impermanence is something important to accept, not just death but that everything in our material world changes every nanosecond.

My feelings about age and death tend to change on a daily basis, probably depending on how I feel, my main concern is thay I outlive my mum as she cant manage by herself and I worry what would happen if she outlives me.

[Catbrian]

I think whether you're 50 or 70, most of us - if we have good health - won't identify with "being old" and the thought of dying through old age is always far off in the future. 

As Zaf says, it's important to accept life's impermanence. However, I'm not sure if very elderly people give much thought to getting nearer 'the end'.  I suppose it depends on the individual.  I'm 49.  While I'm aware of being more than half way through my life expectancy, death of old age feels as far off as it did when I was 20.

I'm the opposite of sad sac, death terrifies me, and it always did, even when I was a child.  My fear regularly ponders the possibility of there being absolutely nothing "on the other side".   *^*