The elderly currently comprise about 10 percent of the America's population, yet they commit 25 percent of the suicides. A 1984 study at the Medical College of Virginia concluded that passive suicide refusing to eat or to take medication was eight times higher among the elderly than the rest of the population. That is not an unusual prayer when we see old age coming. It is not improper to pray for special grace and special strength to help us meet what we cannot ward off and what we view with increasing dread. The elderly stand alone in grave yards where friends and loved ones have already gone.
Old age is a thief.
It blemishes our beauty. It snatches our strength. It heists our health. It molests our memory. One thing it does not do it cannot cut us off from the love and favor of God.