Dear Kittycat100:

This kind of anxiety as I know it myself is maybe unavoidable in that we are the only animals who know (however much we keep it away from our awareness) that we will die, no way to avoid it. And we know that we can get sick anytime. We can minimize the chances of getting sick and infirm best we can, but we can’t guarantee it, not when young and not when older. And, if we live long enough, we will get infirm no matter what.

Maybe this anxiety fits into the term people use, existential anxiety. I try to accept reality best I can. All living things die so I figure it means it is not such a tragedy, meaning, but the mere fact that dying is business-as-usual in nature.

anita