About living past 75 and play not being so meaningful (per the author) and also about a year potentially making a difference: I just came across this story[0]

About living past 75 and play not being so meaningful (per the author) and also about a year potentially making a difference: I just came across this story[0] on Metafilter, about a 75 year old woman, originally from France -- the author's grandmother -- who took up Dungeons & Dragons during the last year of her life (she just died of cancer, which interfered, but didn't fully stop her from playing): [0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165011404086284289.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165011404086284289.html Briefly: it brought her joy and allowed her to explore new vistas and to exercise her creativity. It also brought joy to her grandson -- the DM -- to her fellow players and to everyone reading about it now. P.S. There are people creating fan-art of her gnome character, Terminatur, (which she originally drew a couple of versions of) and posting it to Twitter: https://twitter.com/antnhz https://twitter.com/antnhz And the character may live on in the campaigns of strangers.