Yeah, changing it to "I hope I DON'T die before I get old" is just stupid. The original line wasn't talking about going out and killing yourself before you get old or something. It was talking about hoping that you could always live your life how you wanted to, to its fullest, and hoping that something would happen and you would die before you were too old to do that anymore. It's something that practically everyone wants. They want to enjoy life, not be just some other old guy in a nursing home who can't do anything anymore.
Yeah, changing it to "I hope I DON'T die before I get old" is just stupid. The original line wasn't talking about going out and killing yourself before you get old or something. It was talking about hoping that you could always live your life how you wanted to, to its fullest, and hoping that something would happen and you would die before you were too old to do that anymore. It's something that practically everyone wants. They want to enjoy life, not be just some other old guy in a nursing home who can't do anything anymore.