Trying to fluff up the pillows and make the aging process palatable is an amazing sleight of hand, but even 5 year old children aren’t fooled. Aging sucks. Saying that ‘aging isn’t a disorder’ just flies in the face of reality. Getting older is perfectly fine, the wisdom and the experience that come with time, come to all. I love get older. I hate aging. Let’s not put lipstick on a pig, but call it for what it is, the progressive loss of function that occurs with time (not the chronological passage of time itself) which leads to pathology, disease, and eventually death. The day people admit that aging is a horrific experience which eventually robs us and our loved ones of the joys of living and makes us yearn for death, is the day that we will actually be able to focus our science on it appropriately.