It is more about continuity of the Human race than anything else. (Humans continuing to be able to survive ongoing).
Older people tend to be repositories of knowledge (whether younger people access all this knowledge and wisdom or not).
So, as an older person with a family (children and grandchildren) you become an important place holder in your children and grandchildren's lives. So, the longer you can live and be functional and helpful to them the better civilization and society is going to survive and prosper.
There are so many things we know after 70 or 77 years that others might not have learned about yet.
For example, can you imagine that I started out in 1948? And that I never had a TV even until I was 6 years old and even then my father only bought the TV (a 17 inch black and white TV) so that I wouldn't spend so much time next door watching TV at my best friend's house then in Tujunga? (which is up against the Angeles Crest Mountains in Los Angeles?
So, the point being is that I have seen the Korean War, The Viet Nam War, the craziness of how all minorities were treated in the 1950s especially all women. No wonder younger women under 30 years old think that getting married and having children is about number 12 on their list of things to do in their lives.
So, the point being, If you are older than 50 or 60 years old you become very valuable to everyone you know in many different ways just in the wisdom and knowledge you have garnered just by surviving everything you have already been through.
And you can help everyone you know find ways to survive everything too in their lives as well if they will listen to you. And even if they don't listen to you you can teach a lot just by the example of how you live your lives.
By God's Grace
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