You would think that would be the case. But I’m in the same age cohort as Fundamental Law, and like him I’m less willing to engage in risky behavior than I was as a young man or in middle age.
In my youth I engaged for 15 years in a sport on both an amateur and professional level that regularly injures and kills participants. I was careful, and every day reminded myself that an error in my part or someone else’s could render my daughter an orphan and wife a widow. But I found the sport so challenging and satisfying sport that I was willing to roll the dice on three or four decades of life.
Today, actuarially I have a decade and perhaps a couple of years left. I would not find the risk/reward As favorable. Perhaps it’s the experiential knowledge that my time here is drawing to a close that makes me value what remains more greatly. If you have 60 or 70 good bottles of a favorite vintage in your cellar, each bottle is enjoyable. When only a few remain, each becomes more special and the the knowledge that soon enough they wii all have been drunk makes each sip more special. You might reasonably take extra care not to drop those last bottles.