As the "Ode of Remembrance" poignantly says, these heroes "shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn".
There's a risk of a vicious cycle, in which a shrinking working-age population bears the burden of growing old-age entitlements, which in turn discourages precisely the kind of risk-taking and family formation required to keep the system solvent.
He says that as the population grows older, age discrimination will be addressed more seriously and the nation will develop firm rules that will allow older workers to keep their jobs.
Another video showed the couple growing old together, "ageing" with the aid of special-effects makeup artists.
They create words like geriborg, a robot built to make old age easier for "baby boomers growing old in the digital age" with never-hungry electronic dogs wagging their feather tails, ever ready to take out the garbage.
Ms. Egan, 48, was cited for fiction for her "inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed".
Fiction: "A Visit from the Goon Squad," by Jennifer Egan Alfred A. Knopff), an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.
Such a mouse could demonstrate whether it is possible to avoid growing old.But successful ageing is being promoted here and now.
In "When We Were Pretty," Monica Bill Barnes offers a collection of witty, quirky, virtuosic and deliberately clumsy dances on themes of childhood, coming of age and growing old.
Eventually Sam finds Kevin, who's been growing old in cyberspace in a Space Age bachelor pad that, with its luminescent white panels, indicates that he watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" right before he disappeared.
