Your comments are very refreshing. As one who is towards the tail end of the boomer generation, ( born in 1959 ), I was able to get a front row seat to see how the older members of this generation in question have been spoiled bigtime which includes as you have mentioned by all the viagra, rogain, and plastic surgery stuff. It will be interesting that in the next few years I will be watching what I call two-minute warning, using a sports term when it comes to conversions known as death bed conversions when these boomers know that it will soon be the end of the line.
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Lol ... my pastor's homily last Sunday. He hit hard with the appeals often made by those who are sick or dieing - "please St. So and So, pray for me!" - but when they recover, it's back to life as usual. He has experienced this so many times - a lapsed member of the community becomes seriously ill and asks for his (and the congregation's) prayers. When the situation is grave (pun intended), they seek reconciliation with the community and ask to be buried from the Church they have not attended or supported for many years. Eventually, they do come home ;-)