Why does the thought of old age frighten me more than death?

According to Osho, the fear of old age is really the mind’s way of feeling the deeper, singular fear—death. We haven’t seen death, but we see aging as its doorway, so it becomes the graspable target of anxiety. Recognize death as the root, and live meditatively and meaningfully; then old age becomes a serene ripening—the distilled summit of a well-lived life, not a terror.