Aged 81, #ALpolitics @SenShelby is the Senate’s 4th oldest member.

Senator Richard Shelby is 81 years of age, and while he has not made an official announcement, according to sources, will be seriously considering campaigning for yet another 6-year term… at which point – if he survives it – he will be aged 87.

The Social Security’s most current Actuarial Tables (statistical death probability tables), indicate he has a 6.7509% chance of dying within a year, and conceivably, could live 7.62 more years.

Alabama Senator Richard Shelby is aged 81 years, is the 4th oldest Senator, and is one of 5 senators aged 80, and over. The average age in the Senate is 61. At the end of his present term, he will have been in the Senate for 29 years.

Next year, when he’ll become aged 82, as one might imagine, his chances of dying within a year increase. And with increased age, even the healthiest octogenarian will have health problems, the most common of which include heart problems, high blood pressure, circulatory problems, digestive and excretory difficulties, sleep pattern interruptions, metabolic compromises, respiratory problems, cognitive decline, and more. Of course, there are medications that treat those myriad associated symptoms, but ultimately, hardly do anything for the underlying causes. It is literally, the dying process from which, as we all know, we cannot escape, and to which we are all doomed. In essence, we are whistling past the graveyard, merely attempting to slow down the fall.

Naturally, men’s sexual performance declines, and the turgor of their arousal become increasingly flaccid, even with the assistance of medications designed to treat such symptoms. Women similarly experience a decline in the production of lubrication to facilitate coitus. And male and female similarly experience an increase in the time for arousal. Though physiological desire may be somewhat diminished because of age, the emotional aspect of such union often remains largely intact.

So, it may be no surprise to read that one of Senator Shelby’s expressed wishes to his wife – whom is aged some some years his junior – was that he would like to make love to her one last time before he died.

She was, of course, agreeable to the idea, and said, “I have to get up and the morning, and you don’t.”