I don't think I have a problem with aging (I turn 60 in just less than a month, and am glad of it), but I DO have a problem accepting the idea that I'm gonna die someday.

Having survived a bout with cancer a couple of years ago, I've probably given the prospect of exiting the earth a bit more thought than many of my contemporaries, but I still can't really digest the idea.

MMario hit the nail on the head a couple of hours ago when he wrote "I think that we are undergoing the first generation where a majority of people **EXPECT** to be active and reasonably healthy into their upper decades."

I would add that we also **EXPECT** an increased life-expectancy in comparison with earlier generations ~ even recent generations, like that of our parents. It is already increasingly common for people to reach the age of 100, and forty years from now (when my 100th b-day will roll around, whether or not I'm here to celebrate it), centenarians will almost surely be even more plentiful.

Still in all, no matter how long each of us may survive, it's absolutely inevitable that, sooner or later, all things must pass...