I agree, GLC. One of the reasons I stopped seeing my aunt (among many others) was her constant refrain of "old age ain't for sissies." Now she is only 75, and this was 5-10 years ago. She has normal degenerative things, mostly from her own lifestyle. My own mom, who lived in pain for the last 10 years of her life and had an unsuccessful liver transplant at age 66 *never* spoke like that. She was positive until the end.
I know I'm going to die... I just don't want to . Most of the people in my family live to a very ripe old age and they were not in that bad of shape compared to a lot of people. They had good lives and money and they just were pessimistic about everything. Of course, they were like this before they were old, so I guess it's not shocking.