Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. -Pearl S. Buck, Nobelist novelist (1892-1973)
Of course if you are over 1,000 years old, then you won't worry anymore about them,
for you are one with all generations-past, present and the future. POM