Retirement is a Near-Death Experience

The idea for Retirement is a Near-Death Experience came as a vision to this middle-aged fat guy while Kaz was writing a check for a pre-paid funeral plan. This irreverent, slightly neurotic, and mostly lighthearted book is written in the first person mainly because Kaz is neurotic and his co-author and cohort-in-crime, Natasha, placates him.

The authors live in what is called an active adult retirement community which, in reality, is more like a restricted compound that separates the elderly from the rest of society. Segregation is still alive and well in America after all!

The residents may all be over fifty-five years of age, but they frequently behave more little spoiled children who whine and complain about anything and everything. This behavior came as a shock to both authors.

The community is like something out of the Twilight Zone. Kaz and Natasha occasionally fear for their lives. Violating one of the scared rules here may land you in court or you could just disappear. If you do disappear, an obituary will appear in the newspaper as a cover-up. But then, maybe not.

This is a work of fiction. None of the characters in the book represents any real person living, dead, or soon to be dead.