Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:49 pm by James McGuigan
There is no separate retirement home for Sea Org personnel. From what I picked up, you would be expected to keep working until you are physically unable to do. We are here to save the planet, you are not allowed to be some namby-pamby panty-waste dilettante.
In practice, my assumption is that if the CoS thought you would be a significant drain on resources, such as becoming chronically ill, you would probably be fitness borded out of the SO, and would become somebody else's problem.
Otherwise if you significantly contributed to the SO over many years, they would probably allow you to continue to remain within the SO, and receive food, clothing, accommodation and pocket money, on the same terms as everybody else. You would never become officially "retired", though you might CSW (= ask permission and justify in writing) to be assigned some fairly easy and unstressful post, such as gardener at Walsh Manor (one of the SO accommodation units).
Freedom is a choice. Choose to be yourself, choose to speak your truth and do so with compassion. And above all else, choose to be not afraid. If I can't dance, its not my revolution.