What is it that most people want to become but nobody wants to be? The answer, of course, is - old. W. Gunther Plaut, at 86, one of North America's senior rabbis and scholars in every sense of the term, here ruminates "from the inside" on a lifetime's perspective of being old, confronting society's often negative views as well as one's own mortality. Readers will find this book to be deeply moving, uplifting and wonderfully engaging. The whimsical illustrations add a touch of delicious understated humor. Over 50 or know someone who is? This is the book for you.