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After his retirement, an older man struggles to come to terms with his own mortality and begins to imagine death all around him, particularly when he hears coyotes howl near his house in the night.

Knowing that his wife only has a year left to live, an elderly man puts aside the bitterness in their marriage to make her as happy and comfortable as possible.

An elderly man fills out an exit questionnaire as he leaves his retirement community, intending to admonish the community's doctor. He ends up revealing the details of his final months with his wife and describes how they used to dance together, cherishing their love.

A retired, middle-aged man lives alone after leaving his wife and daughters in England and moving to Vancouver. Amid the growing certainty of death and the absence of any strong relationships, he realizes he must break out of the vacuum within which he lives.

A retired couple live a comfortable life in the suburbs of Maryland, but they cannot escape thoughts of death and mourning, even as the husband and wife attend an extravagant toga-themed house warming party in their neighborhood.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.

An elderly woman spends twenty years of her life in paranoia and depression after the death of her husband, only to gain sudden, supreme clarity after a small incident at the end of her life.

An elderly woman finally reaches out to her estranged nephews to settle the matter of her will, but her unexpected decision leaves them shocked.

After being put in a nursing home by her daughter, an elderly woman feels her family slipping away from her until it is too late for reconciliation.