我们也表露老年人对死亡的恐惧，仿佛不安和抑郁一定会纠缠着生命的最后几年。

We also project our terror of death onto the aged, assuming that fear and depression must stalk the final years of life.

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老年人爱拿自己寿命开玩笑，自我解嘲，其实背后掩藏的是一种对死亡的恐惧和身后的不安。

They like to joke about their life expectancy and to laugh at their age, but in fact there is fear of death and insecurity about afterlife behind that.

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