> Growing old

Ever heard the saying "Age is just a number"? If you took care of yourself you never feel like "Now I'm old".

It's typically only the young that look at the elderly and think "they are old".

True. It's amazing how little my sense of self has changed. I'm still basically ~14. Maybe it was not having kids. Or maybe it was all the LSD.

That reminds me of something Old Bill Burroughs wrote about in his last trilogy. But then, he had some outlandish fantasies about reincarnation through simultaneous suicide and conception. Or asexual spiritual materialization. So it was best to die in prime health.

In reality, he died at 83, after a heart attack.