Does aging scare anyone else?

[Whengcame]

A few pictures came up on Facebook of some local ladies. These women are not old. They would be late 40s going on 50. Seeing their pictures scared me because they aged so quickly. I couldn't believe it. It would be a few years since I last saw them but they looked well before. Now, their hair is thin, and there are winkles on the face and they did not look good.
Seeing what's in store for me for the future.

Being nearly 45, no my 40s and 50s don't scare me.

I think my 80s do though, and the fact there's not assisted dying allowed in this country - I kind of hope I pop my clogs somewhere in my early to mid 80s, it all seems to be horribly downhill after that, and I have an issue with my hips that means I am not going to be one of those super active, fit and healthy 80-somethings either.

Growing older does nt scare menbut I will admit to being surprised I'm in my 40s when it does nt feel that long ago I was in my 20s! I do feel a bit like it's crept up on me but I'm not scared.

I'm scared of lots of medical things that Could and do happen which would make me seriously ill and /or kill me. I want to get old and die peacefully in my sleep not suddenly and in pain!

I’m the same, @Echobelly . Tbh, if I’m ever diagnosed with an awful progressive disease, I’ll probably look into assisted dying options abroad.

Old age comes to us if we are lucky .

I'm not afraid of aging. I'm afraid of not having the opportunity to age more.

It’s really lucky to get older - nothing to be scared of. I’d be happy. Definitely not worried about looks fading. That’s irrelevant. Ageing can bring with it health problems, though. You think you are immune when you are younger, but hit your 40s, and definitely your 50s, that’s when the serious and not so serious health issues kick in.

Aging scares me the older I get, I'm 30 now, I feel I've aged 10 years in the 2 since getting covid to be honest.
I don't like the way my face looks (I've got my mother's double chin) or how my weight sits on my stomach.

At the moment, I think the thing that scares me most about aging is we currently struggle for money, we live in a private rental, we can't save, we run at a loss each month, we are more prone to issues with malnutrition and lack of exercise because of money and time, my body is already irreparably damaged from years of back breaking work and long hours, and neither of us have a pension we are paying into so neither of us have a plan for when we are old.
That's what scares me.

My deteriorating eyesight really annoys me and I’m only 48! Just had to get stronger reading glasses and I didn’t even wear them until a couple of years ago. I’ve also got a cataract developing in one eye, apparently.

What a wreck. 😂

I’m in my early 50s and a lot of people say I don’t look my age but I’m aware that my skin isn’t as good as it used to be.

What scares me about growing old though is becoming frail. I hadn’t really thought about it until recently. My Dad is 89 and my Mom is 87, her mother was 94 when she died and had been active until two weeks before her death. My parents had both been very active and much younger than their ages until the pandemic. They’d get the bus or train to go shopping each week, they loved gardening, my mother was always cooking or baking, always on the go.

My Dad continued to go for walks during the lockdowns but my mother refused to leave the house. Since 2020 she’s only left the house for a couple of medical appointments and for vaccinations, but it’s now a year since she last went anywhere. She’s aged considerably, is skin and bone, can’t walk unaided, falls frequently and spends all day and night sitting and sleeping in an orthopaedic armchair. Just this morning my Dad called as he needed someone to go and help lift her as she’d fallen again.

It’s a miserable existence and I dread that happening to me.