Is it okay for the government to decide a "legal" age for retirement? If you make an assload of money by the time you're 40, then retire. Why kill yourself for another 25 years after that?
I think the old statistic was one out of every four. If 1/4 parachutes were to fail, would anyone ever go skydiving? Would any women ever go to college?
Eloped and then her family would have been shamed, and then they would have declared an honor killing to erase that shame. This is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down.