[sammyg2]

I've known a couple of people I worked with or for who were forced to retire and ended up sitting in their chairs waiting to die.

Lots of baby-boomers get so caught up in their career that it defines them, their working personal is who they are.
Their achievements, their satisfaction, their purpose is all wrapped up in that job.
take it away and they are lost with nothing left to do except die.

Neither of the two I'm thinking of lived two years after retirement.
One was the stingiest tightwad I had ever met, was a multi-millionaire but never spent a penny he didn't have to.

he left all that money to his kids who probably put it all up their noses.