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Aging is an inevitable part of life. From our first breath to our last breath we are constantly growing older. It is an inescapable process of life that knows no boundaries such as race or gender; it happens to everyone and everything on earth. It is through aging that we mature and become wise in the ways of life. The way that one chooses to live life, and the opportunities that they take, influence the quality of their life in its later years. Take for example Mrs. Chapman; she is an eighty year-old woman who lives across the street from my family. She is a very strong woman, in all senses of the word. Emotionally, she has been through, and still goes through a lot. Her late husband suffered from bowel cancer and passed away in 1974; leaving her to parent two children on her own. Ten years later she meet her current husband, and is now at the age of eighty, his sole caregiver. He is a difficult and miserable man whose outlook on life is, “ I’ll be glad when it’s over”. Mr. Chapman is her primary source of stress and he is probably the reason she has angina. He is 86 years old and has prostrate cancer, heart problems, a pace maker, a hearing aid, emphysema, and is on oxygen twenty-four hours a day. He is a stubborn