How much do you fear growing old?

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I placed another thread on dying, but this thread deals with growing old. I have great fears growing old and being placed in a nursing home. I’m not suicidal, but I look forward to dying.
 
I don’t. Maybe if I sat and thought about it long enough, fear might come into play. However, that to me is good reason not to sit and think about it.

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I have more experience than many with nursing homes, because I have been involved with two different groups that arranged parties and concerts in the various nursing homes in the area. I don’t fear growing old per se, but I have a dread of becoming the kind of disabled that would put me in one of those homes.

So far, so good. Today is my birthday (66), and I’ll be commuting 16 miles round trip to work on a 27-speed road bike 😃
 
I wasn’t afraid of getting old before. However, ever since Obamacare is ruled as constitutional, getting old becomes a problem. Old people 65 and above will be denied treatment, they call it “ration”. Obamacare says old people cannot waste the limited medical resources, therefore, old people’s treatment will be denied. Today our treatment is decided by our doctor. When Obamacare kicks in, treatment will be decided by federal government.
We either elect Romney to re-appeal Obamacare, or we do all we can stay healthy and never get sick. What I said is a fact, please do not respond by arguing there is no such a thing. “Ration” and deny of senior treatment is black and white in the bill. I am just giving my reason to the poll question.
 
I don’t fear growing old, per se, but I do take joy in my current age because of my children. Also little things bug me, like nagging injuries from martial arts and working out that don’t go away as fast as they used to.

God bless,
Bryan
 
Robert_Sock said:
I placed another thread on dying, but this thread deals with growing old. I have great fears growing old and being placed in a nursing home. I’m not suicidal, but I look forward to dying.
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I look forward to dying as well. I would like to die young and never have to suffer old age.
 
I just watched my father die from Parkinson’s Dementia and yes, watching that has made me fear growing old. Not dying, but what can happen to you before you die.
 
InLight247 said:
I wasn’t afraid of getting old before. However, ever since Obamacare is ruled as constitutional, getting old becomes a problem. Old people 65 and above will be denied treatment, they call it “ration”. Obamacare says old people cannot waste the limited medical resources, therefore, old people’s treatment will be denied. Today our treatment is decided by our doctor. When Obamacare kicks in, treatment will be decided by federal government.
We either elect Romney to re-appeal Obamacare, or we do all we can stay healthy and never get sick. What I said is a fact, please do not respond by arguing there is no such a thing. “Ration” and deny of senior treatment is black and white in the bill. I am just giving my reason to the poll question.
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Must the politics come in to every single thread on this site???
 
I chose “moderately” b/c no one wants to get old. I don’t, but I will.
 
I have always looked forward to being old because it means one thing to me ‘Retirement’ !
 
At 57, my years have been healthy. I have many friends who are older and not by many years. I find it kind of wierd to have friends in their 60’s & 70’s. Health maintenance becomes more of an issue. I fear loss and there are many potential losses with growing older. Naturally loss of spouse and independence are the two biggest. We do not have children so another fear deals with who will assist us as we decline. I do not worry about the healthcare system as I think it is looking to boost preventative & maintenance care. I pay more attention to AARP now also. No, my fears deal with loss and dependence.
 
[QUOTEMust the politics come in to every single thread on this site???
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I thought the same thing. Give it a rest.
 
Growing old is an opportunity to grow closer to the Lord. We can accept our limitations and surrender to Him, through prayer and the sacraments, no matter what is happening with our physical bodies.

Life is short, and while we still have our free will we can all grow and be sanctified, and in that way build up the Body of Christ.
 
Dorothy said:
Growing old is an opportunity to grow closer to the Lord. We can accept our limitations and surrender to Him, through prayer and the sacraments, no matter what is happening with our physical bodies.

Life is short, and while we still have our free will we can all grow and be sanctified, and in that way build up the Body of Christ.
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Growing old is a kind of cross. It can bring us closer to the Lord if we surrender. That is our Christian call. I remember a Good Friday some yeras ago when it was time to venerate the Cross. I didn’t want ot do it. It is not only His cross. It is also our cross. Does anyone realize what they are doing. Venerating, kissing nowt only the cross that unites us to Him but our own crosses as well. Embracing, picking up our own crosses is not something we usualy do willingly. Don’t we often pray that our crosses be lifted, that our health and family be well and happy. I realized that I feared the cross. How could I kiss it? But then, it is also the symbol of my discipleship, the symbol of His work and redemption. In my own weakness I am closer to Christ. This is not just some pius thing we do in church. It is the meaning of our lives including all the things we would normally shun, avoid, or let the pass us by. It is our challenge to accept aging as part of our life of penance. There is also a positive side of aging. Hopefully we become wiser. And we can be less competative, maybe a little bit freer.
 
Due to a Presidential intrusion into my ability to not endure worse suffering from illness and aging, I am praying for his defeat and the defeat of his horrendous “health plan”. I am praying for all the unborn babies that our tax dollars will be used to deny them life. I am praying for all the souls that will be persuaded that killing babies is okay. I am praying for our Country because a nation that kills its children will not survive. I pray that the American people will keep our Constitution. So - it seems that politics has a very important role in the birth and good life until Our Lord calls us. Who is just so “tired” of politics being a most important subject to talk about? Only those who love to be the first to say, “never talk about religion or politics”. Quite cowardly IMO.
 
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Must the politics come in to every single thread on this site??? ]
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Then both of you will be displeased with my answer. I voted “considerably” for the very same reason as the poster you take issue with. I think that before all this healthcare mess I would have voted “a little.”

There are things about the possibility of losing your mental faculties that make it frightening. That was what scared me before. So does the prospect of needing to be cared for daily by non family members. Knowing that this stage of life is often accompanied by the death of a spouse also makes it scary.

What scares me now is that no amount of financial responsibility on my part now will be useful in the wreckage that will be left if this policy goes into effect for real. I think that it scares me more as a married person. The idea of losing my husband or dying before him, one of which is mostly inevitable, bothers me because I know that we will have fewer options and less choice in the types of care available if this mess doesn’t get overturned.

It is time to eat better, take your vitamins and be prepared to embrace suffering and your own mortality when the time comes because the state of medicine will meet a sharp decline in the US.
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