Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' - CNN.com

Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' - CNN.com: "Kazuko Sasaki, 69, the co-founder of the group, says she has a number of personal reasons why she wants to work at the plant. 'My generation, the old generation, promoted the nuclear plants. If we don't take responsibility, who will?'
But Sasaki is also pragmatic about the risks an older person is willing to take versus someone younger.
'When we were younger, we never thought of death. But death becomes familiar as we get older.
'We have a feeling that death is waiting for us. This doesn't mean I want to die. But we become less afraid of death, as we get older.'
Sasaki also says a 30-year old exposed to radiation at the crippled plant might get cancer at 35 or 40. At her age, she'd be 75 or 80, and might have gotten cancer anyway, she says."