Please can I retire now?

So bosses are allowed to fire people once they hit 65. What is more some people actually object to this and are demanding the right to work for someone until they drop dead. Now I don't know about you but I personally can't wait till I get to retire so I can get my pension and do all the things I want to. Now I know that there are certain jobs, professions even, that are so fascinating that the people who do them just want to carry on. I mean scientist, medics people in the arts who have fascinating jobs, but just working on the line in a car factory is not my idea of fun. I is important that we allow those who have interesting jobs to do them but this can be sorted by allowing them facilities while they get - earn - their pension. Something like being an emeritus professor at a university. One of the problems is that people feel that all they have in their lives is work, paid work that is; it defines them. Some how they have nothing else in their lives so when they lose their job, either by retiring or as a result of the recession, they have nothing in their lives except day time television - a soul destroying edifice at the best of times.
People should have things to do, have hobbies, anything that has nothing to do with work - or employment as it should be called as we will always be working. Industry should be encouraged to help their employees to develop outside interests by allowing such things as sabbatical days (weeks) and company external activity groups. This would have advantages for both the companies and the individuals employed by them. By investing in these non-core activities the company will expand is knowledge base and so provide itself with some protection when the going gets tough. Employees will be both happy to retire (often as soon as possible) and still be repaired to give of their knowledge if necessary.
If we can get Industry to start thinking Green it must be as much in relation to their personnel and employment strategies as to their manufacturing or service strategies. There is a whole world of Green possibilities for industry out there but Industry needs to understand that unless they adopt steady state economics and abandon the fruitless pursuit of growth there is only one direction they can go.