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In this written version of a talk given to a Division 39 audience, the author reflects on issues of limitation, including mortality. She addresses the evident reluctance of many analysts to engage at a personal level, both clinically and theoretically, with aging, loss of function, and dying and invites a conversation about how elderly therapists may prepare for the impact on their patients of their eventual decline and death. She attributes part of the widespread avoidance of such issues to implicit Western—especially American—cultural ideologies, which are replete with Lockean-era assumptions that resources are boundless, that problems are all fixable, and that individual entitlements are more concerning than communal needs and obligations. She contrasts such attitudes with dominant psychoanalytic sensibilities and clinical knowledge, drawing some inferences for the profession. She considers the positive aspects of limitation, including some ways it opens up possibilities for creativity and generativity. Finally, she takes up specifically the aging of members of Division 39 and other psychoanalytic groups, the accomplishments of the current generation of analysts, and the challenges to be faced by psychoanalytic professionals in the next generation.