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> By the time it comes naturally, around 80 y/o 90 tops it would be a relief...you'd be so tired after a lifetime of fighting and you'd be such a second class citizen and excluded from all the fun and the social relevance that you'd be looking forward to checking out.

Does not match reality. Where are the waves of senior suicides?

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> Where are the waves of senior suicides?

Where is their enthusiasm for life?

Of course survival instinct does its job very well. It even prevents people who are in extreme pain from committing the extreme act, but nonetheless it's not really that people look forward to stuff at 90.

And why would you? If you are not completely gone mentally, you can observe yourself losing relevance by the minute, younger guns attacking you and filling the void.

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