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- About the elderly
- Silver (65-74 years).
- Gold (75-84 years).
- Diamond (85+ years).
About the Elderly
The elderly usually fall into three groups:
- Silver (typically age 65-74)
- Gold (typically age 75-84)
- Diamond (typically age >85)
The elderly have shaped the pro-life history by what they have done and what they only wished they had done.
One story I heard was about a granddaughter who needed her octogenarian grandmother's comforting statements that the granddaughter would not be alone in keeping her child.
Instead of getting an abortion at Planned Parenthood, the granddaughter kept and raised the child.
Another story begins with a grandson who was not aborted and the story ends with his performing heroic deeds.
Encouraging the elderly to maintain a positive, pro-life message that affects everybody is a tall order.
The elderly (age near 65 and up) experience restrictions on health, mobility, and enjoyment of life due to illness or events can damage one’s sense of dignity and integrity.
Such experiences may radically diverge from their expectations for the 'golden years'.
Such things can reduce one’s perception as being worthy of honor or respect.
People under these conditions may be more susceptible to notions of suicide, either assisted suicide or without their consent as with euthanasia.
When in pain, being in love with someone, other than one’s self, provides one with a focus that for a limited time can help one endure and perhaps transcend ones painfilled existence.
Per 100,000 people by age group,
Death rate by age and sex in the U.S. 2021
| Age Group:
|
Male:
|
Female:
|
| All ages* |
1118.2 |
970.8 |
| Under 1 year** |
598.9 |
517 |
| 1-4 |
27 |
22.9 |
| 5-1 |
16.4 |
12.2 |
| 15-24 |
126.9 |
49.3 |
| 25-34 |
251.2 |
108.6 |
| 35-44 |
373.3 |
201.2 |
| 45-54 |
668.4 |
393.9 |
| 55-64 |
1,397.5 |
848 |
| 65-74 |
2,640 |
1,715.6 |
| 75-84 |
6,031.8 |
4,395.7 |
| 85 and over |
17,190.5 |
14,914.5 |
Supplementary notes
Death rate covers the number of deaths per 100,000 of population.
* Figures for age not stated are included in "All ages" but are not distributed among age group.
** Death rates for "Under 1 year" (based on population estimates) differ from infant mortality rates (based on live births).
The death rate
Death rates generally are counted as the number of deaths per 1,000 or 100,000 of the population and include both deaths of natural and unnatural causes. The death rate in the United States had pretty much held steady since 1990 until it started to increase over the last decade, with the highest death rates recorded in recent years. While the birth rate in the United States has been decreasing, it is still currently higher than the death rate.
Death Rates
Assisted Suicide Other info
Those blessed with health, wisdom, good relationships, and peace of mind as they age may have a greater probability of living out a pro-life message until their natural death.
They can be heroes to the unborn, expectant mothers and fathers, and to other elderly. They can be an example of living goodness.
The process of dying is never fun, but it is a necessary part of living.
While there is limited time to live this earthly existence, there is always a time to die. Living can be improved every day.
Dying is a once in a lifetime event and only complicated by the prospects of an afterlife.
While our focus has been on preventing unnecessary death of the unborn babies, in the geological time blink of an eye, the baby is elderly.
The focus always remains on life. As a team we might consider how we may encouraging measures that facilitate elderly care at home if such care is possible.
Euthanasia - flip book you will find at the bottom of this link's web page that you can view and read in full-screen mode.
Summary
- Euthanasia - 'Right to Die' becomes 'Right to Kill'
- Dehydration and starvation is not merciful
- Persistent Vegetative State - A day, week or month to resume being healthy
- Death rhetoric progression timeline from 1938 to 2017
- Hospice and palliative care - Do good/Never do harm vs. utilitarian bioethics
- Organ donation - hasty decisions can cut a good life short
- Aborting an unhealthy child - genetic testing, stealth euthanasia
- Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorney - Chosing your life or death decider
- POLST - Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment. Understand what you authorize
- Euthanasia (an Assisted Suicide) Around the World - Recipe for elder abuse / Falsified death certificates
About the elderly Silver group
The Silvers: Typical age 65-74
The Silver group often transitions into retirement, even if that means getting new part-time employment.
Focusing on building or maintaining a strong relationship to their God, families, and communities can help one maintain ones integrity during this time.
Some may feel anger or resentment over past failed personal relationships, taxes, politics, inflation, or markets that diminish years or decades of their hard work.
Without good work as a ministry, diversion, or income, they may also experience impediments to providing good service to others.
About the elderly Golden group
The Goldens: Typical age 75-84
The Goldens can become beacons of hope and positivity.
They have survived many of life's ups and downs. With proper reflection and contemplation, they may still be able to share their acquired wisdom. Being part of a healthy community helps reduce the difficulty of working through their change of life.
Changes in hearing, vision, strategy, memory, mobility, tolerance, patience, and circles of friends that one outlives can lead to isolation and loneliness.
Staying connected to good people can help.
About the elderly Diamond group
The Diamonds: Typical age greater than 84 years
Like diamonds this group has like endured much pressure over the long run and often have developed their unique character.
Some require more sophisticated care and housing than many younger generation members can provide.
Multigenerational homes tended to be replaced with institutional housing over the past hundred years or so as the population ages.
It may be difficult in a world of scarcity to find institutions that promotes pro-life.
The diamonds among us offer everyone the opportunity to grow from learning how to "pay it forward" the good they received from others to those who need it most.