It is impossible to disentangle "bored of life" from "bored of being old" with current technology. It is very easy to imagine that people pretty freely conflate the two. Put an arthritic 80-year old on the verge of death from any of several conditions popping thirty pills a day in a fresh, healthy 18-year-old body and ask them if they're still "bored of life" in a month.
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It is impossible to disentangle "bored of life" from "bored of being old" with current technology. It is very easy to imagine that people pretty freely conflate the two. Put an arthritic 80-year old on the verge of death from any of several conditions popping thirty pills a day in a fresh, healthy 18-year-old body and ask them if they're still "bored of life" in a month.