One of my greatest fears is outliving my wife. I think this comes from the first 2mins of the film Up.

In fact this happened to me last year--my wife of 42 years passed away after a long illness. Life is different now! Sadly, unless you die together in an accident this is what happens as we get older. But it is never easy.

Nobody cares about you when you're truly lonely.

Your daughters won't turn their backs. They will only begin to understand the gravity of your love for them on their adventures.

And if nothing else, you will have loved and been loved. Many of us will never have that.

I sure your girls wont neglect their old Dad, but sure some people make your life so colourful that their absence would be sheer agony.

I feel for older men when they lose someone near to them

OMG dude, yes!

I had the same exact response to this film, its DEVASTATING when he loses his wife...I can't believe this is a cartoon

@WintaTheAngle 🤔a true and very sad fact you point out it rather show the lack of empathy too the old and needy

I can understand your thoughts on this. I think about this myself.

I'm not facing death yet, but those around me in real life don't give enough of a shit to even come visit me anymore...

I say it is much more difficult for men

Unless there's a large age gap, statistically women outlive men. So I dunno, maybe not worry so much? I know that seems harsh to say, but I can relate to being scared of loved ones dying before me.

You are at least lucky that you have a daughter. We couldn't have children. Both my wife and I are only children. Our parents are gone. She is six years older than me and handicapped. The odds of her outliving me are not good.