My dear editor,

Thank you for your letter and please forgive the delay. No, old age has no terrors for me because I don’t believe there is such a thing as old age for me. So long as my heard and mind can respond to human joys & sorrows – I am young. But if ever I should notice that I can see & hear, and am not capable of feeling, then – well, then let me be cremated – and quick!

Nazimova