Florida Scott-Maxwell on how to deal with old age

    Perhaps salting the aging process with humor helps one live longer. Florida Scott-Maxwell, who lived well up into her years, wrote this:

When a new disability arrives I look about me to see if death has come, and I call quietly, “Death, is that you? Are you there?” So far the disability has answered, “Don’t be silly, it’s me.” (Quoted from The Measure of My Days, Florida Scott-Maxwell, New York: Knopf, 1968.)
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Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) was a writer, playwright, suffragist, and psychologist who studied with Carl Jung in Scotland and England. For more of her ideas on aging, click here.