As a person growing old more rapidly than he cares to contemplate, I can tell you that no one in his youth or even early middle age thinks he will ever get old. (bookpage.com)
While most people can only dream of retiring in their forties, Mancini (whose name and details we've changed to protect his privacy) figures he'll be able to wave goodbye to work in early middle age because he's single, has no dependents and plans to keep it that way. (moneysense.ca)
The authors attribute this, not unreasonably, to the stress of being grabbed and injected with the drug that activates the INK - ATTAC «suicide gene» twice a week from early middle age until the day they die. (fightaging.org)