" Listen again to Shakespeare. In his tragedy King Lear, one of the world’s classics on dysfunctional families, a dispossessed son who refuses to be embittered by the way he has been treated comments thus on his blinded father’s loss of the will to live: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. (act 5, scene 2) "

― J.I. Packer , Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging