Getting older seems to but does not make us even more mortal.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Aging is dreaded the most by people whose income is entirely dependent on their looks.

As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.