youth cult

One Cosmos (again):

Life is growth. Or to put it in the negative, nothing grows but life. Everything else is merely a mechanical process... If you are not growing, you are not just dying, you are already dead. And this is why the Oprah-esque books on aging are not really about youth worship but death worship. It is why the stretched and botoxed Nancy Pelosi looks less like the innocently beautiful young woman of her imagination than a surprised corpse.