Mike Andrews, president of the local firefighters' union, said about one in four of his men now qualified for retirement, but were afraid to retire, concerned that their pensions would be chopped in bankruptcy.
She's not afraid to tackle the tough ones: suicide among older men, caring for a parent who never cared for you, the mistake of retiring too soon.
Any thoughts of retiring?
Batman even thinks of retiring.
I had been considering it for three years before I actually did retire, because I was so afraid of wasting all of my "talent".
"At times I was afraid of the mayor," testified Ramzi J. Loqa, the city's longtime building inspector, recently retired.
Some health activists are so afraid of the impact that a certain red-haired clown has on children that they want him to retire.
"The cops were afraid of it because they thought it was going to create a problem on the scene," said Father Powis, who retired from St. Barbara's in 2004.
"I'm afraid, afraid of the war.
