Most probably all the diseases of old people are deep down rooted in death. Usually people say that such and such a person died because of such and such a sickness. But I think it would be more appropriate to say that such and such person is sick because of death. What happens is that the idea of death makes a person vulnerable to all kinds of diseases. As soon as someone feels he is moving toward death, the doors to all kinds of diseases open and he starts to catch them. Even if a healthy person comes to know for sure that he is going to die the next day, he will fall sick. Everything was all right, all the reports were normal: the X-ray was normal, the blood pressure was within normal limits, the pulse was all right, the stethoscope conveyed that everything was perfect. But if a person becomes completely convinced he is going to die the next day, you will see that he will start to catch a variety of diseases. He will catch as many diseases in twenty-four hours as it would normally be difficult to catch in twenty-four lifetimes.
What happens to him? He opens himself up to all kinds of diseases. He stops resisting. Since he is certain of his death, he moves away from the consciousness within that has acted as a wall, forming a barrier against disease. Then he is ready for his death and diseases start to come. That is why people die soon after retirement.
Anybody who wants to retire should understand this before retiring. They will die as much as five or six years earlier. Someone who would have died at the age of seventy will die when he is only sixty-five; someone who would have died at the age of eighty will die when he is seventy-five. The ten or fifteen years of his retirement will be spent preparing for death. He will not accomplish anything else because he knows that now he is of no use in life. There is no work for him, and no one will greet him on the road.
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