I'M already sixty-five years old. And the older I get ... the more conscious I become of my OWN mortality. When I was growing-up, there were many folk I knew, who were dead before they'd the chance of reaching the age I am now. Being an obviously well-read and intelligent man, Mike ... you're very likely aware that at the time the State Pension was first introduced in 1908, the Liberal Government of the day - under Prime Minister Henry Herbert Asquith - set the retiral age for men at 65, knowing full-well that very few would still be alive to CLAIM their pension.Bear in mind, that was just over 100 years ago!
You're not so terribly far behind ME age-wise;also, you know as well as I do that the older one becomes - the quicker time [seems] to pass. Aren't YOU afraid of what lies ahead for the human soul after a person dies? (apart from the funeral, obviously!) I certainly AM; I'd hate to think it was NOTHING
... for the rest of eternity!
