Due to occur.. we will all get old, ripe with old age they say!! But all ripe fruits evetntually rot and decay, if not eaten in there prime.. Just the same with people I guess some die young in their ripeness others get old and start to decay right in front of your eyes. My Grandma seems to be one of those people right now. She is 84ish, her mind is leaving and her body wearing out.. it makes you wonder how some people fall apart with age and others just evaporate all at once.. itis hard to think about for me, but even harder for my Dad, Aunt, and Uncle.I can't even imagine how hard it would be to see you parent fall apart on you.. and not remember who you are at the same time.. like you were a stranger in ther lives and home! Even when you have been there everyday for forty years... it saddens me to think that it can and probably will happen to me, you , all of us some time before we die.. we too will ripen, fall from our tree and rot into decay! just another endless cycle we call life!!