Most research shows that older persons have no more death anxiety than young persons, by the way.
I figured this was it, the beginning of an important conversation about his life and death. I was very ready to listen to whatever he had to say. We were silent for a little bit, and then he talked about something unrelated. As best I can tell, that was all he had to say on the topic and seemed to feel he had said enough. My father happened to be a man who did not share a lot of his feelings, but was not conflicted about them.