Ill-lived

In her closing paragraph, Jurgette wrote of living ones later years like fine wine, "not the vinegar of a life ill-lived; or the dry dust of a life not lived." Jurgette found "vinegar," on second thought, "yuk, jarring in a different way," and so she has changed it to read: "not the rot and reek of a life ill-lived."

But the trick is in the aging process so that in ones later years, one is like fine wine, not the vinegar of a life ill-lived; or the dry dust of a life not lived.