If by old you mean sick and withered, I'd prefer to die relatively young, as in still fully capable, without anybody waiting on me or me having to piss through a tube.
Would you rather take a bounty issued by the Oslo Liberation Army for the rebellious, shapeshifting hired gun who knifed the crazed Norwegian swamp partisan, angering Admiral Pei-Xue and get marooned on an arid planet with no sentient species, or have to help the crazed Norwegian bog partisan fight the shapeshifting bounty hunter, facing almost certain death?