Ageing is suffering: And what is ageing? Whatever decay, decrepitude, brokenness of teeth, graying of hair, wrinkling of skin, decline of strength, weakening of the mental abilities, feebleness, and senility of whatever kind of being, that is called aging.Its function is to lead on to death! It is manifested as the vanishing of youth. It is suffering because of the change into decay and the gradual, but steadily falling apart of the body. The loss of memory and intelligence in senile dementia is also distressing.
With leadenness in every limb, With every ability declining, With vanishing of youthfulness, With memory all evaporated, With intelligence eroded away, With strength now drained, With growing unattractiveness Now looking and smelling bad To both wife, friends and family: This is the unavoidable misery Any mortal must expect to find! Since ageing all of this will bring, Ageing is well named suffering. Vism 502
