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Re:How to Grow Old (1951) by Ngunyan on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:53PM (#18690549)
>I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

I fear death because I fear no one will look after the things that I cared about in the same passion and in the same way that I do. I guess I am too sentimental for what I've done to the things I love.

Re:How to Grow Old (1951) by Mithriil on Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:51PM (#18691158)
What makes you think noone will choose a similar path to yours with the same passion?
Re:How to Grow Old (1951) by mevile on Sunday December 16, 2018 @03:42AM (#18692319)
I think you have a solvable problem. Just find people who do care about things as much as you do.
Re:How to Grow Old (1951) by pbhjpbhj on Sunday December 16, 2018 @11:21AM (#18693688)
This is IMO the directly wrong approach.

Realise instead that no-one, not even your own offspring (see comments elsewhere on that one), will share your exact approach, your exact balance of desires, your exact passion. Give it up. Death will come and force the situation; don't be beholden to that which can never be achieved.