Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
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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.
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