Hi Anna: To answer your question I'd have to say that 62 isn't the same as dead, lol. (a) Some of us, probably all, are still sexually active but might need a little more hormonal help than, say, a 20 year old with such matters as thinning of the vaginal wall and dryness which can make intercourse unnecessarily painful. (b) Even at 62 we deserve to have feelings of well-being, energy, vitality; hormones help with all that. (c) There is also evidence to suggest that one reason young women don't usually have heart attacks is because they are being protected by hormones, primarily estrogen, and conversely older women are more likely to suffer heart attacks because their hormones have diminished.

It's like nature decided that because a woman can no longer continue the species by giving birth she is no longer necessary on the planet, so we'll just take away her hormones and she'll quickly shrivel up and die! I'm only being partly facetious. However, babyboomers have always changed everything and this shrivelling up and dying stuff is no exception. We ain't gonna do it before we're ready!!!