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What do you mean by aging?
The passage of time without dying.
Accumulating decreptitude.
Accumulating experience, knowledge, expertise, wisdom.
These are different things that are only contingently related to each other, but conflating them lets you make arguments that fall apart once one notices the equivocation on "aging". "Aging(3) is good, but aging(2) ends in death, therefore death is good."
Interesting point. In the context of this post it is 2 (though you shouldn't have chosen a derogative).
I don't think someone would name 1 when asked about the biological (or colloquial) meaning of aging. And 3 would seldom be cited alone but probably more often as compensation aspect of 2.
"Decreptitude" is descriptive, not derogative. Decrepit: wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age (Merriam-Webster Online).
That's decrepitude. Your use with "t" implied a derogative with "creep". But it seems to have been a typo. Sorry for misinterpreting this.