For a will, or a volition, is common to everyone, and, except in those situations where the person is so injured that they are no longer conscious, or aware of their surroundings, and thus would seem to have lost the freedom and responsibility that are the birthright of humankind (in which case they become the charge of their community, or those who would care for them, and are no less valuable as a creature, whether they are to survive in that condition for a while, or to perish right away), is not susceptible to the effects of aging, the way our bodies are, and in fact is so ethereal a thing that it would seem merely conceptual, or abstract, were it not evidenced in our every thought and deed and intention, so that we cannot deny its presence, or avoid its reality, even if we would like to.