 What is the first mate trying to express when he says "You all want me ta die uv old age"?
VOYAGE TO FAR N'JURD I "I don't see why we have to be here," a crewman said. "Joanne Marie," he said, "you know that when I aims ta do somethin', I'm jest natcher'lly bound to do hit. An' iffen I aims ta talk...." "So he do; an' I'll tell ya, hit shore is time he's a-gittin' hyere. The crewman to his left bent over and whispered, "I'll bet he's gonna tell us it's gonna be another postponement." "Now, dear," said Joanne Marie, "the captain can hear ya, if you're gonna talk so loud." He's th' one that's a-keepin' us all from our Reward, an' I jest hope he does heyar me, so he'll know I'm a-gittin' mighty tyird uv waitin'." While the priest stood before the speaker's rostrum waiting for silence, the captain reached back with great dignity and scratched his right shoulder blade. Nestir, the priest, was dressed out in the full ceremonial costume of office. The baldness was symbolic of diligent mental application to abstruse points of doctrine. Cotian exentiati pablum re overum est : "Grass grows not in the middle of a busy thoroughfare." The baldness was the result of the diligent application of an effective depilatory. His blood-red cloak had been freshly cleaned for the occasion, and it rustled around him in silky sibilants. And then, more loudly, "Men!" "Well, I'll be damned," Joanne Marie's husband said loudly. "Three, you will recall, were wise. When Prophet was at Meizque, they came to him and said, 'Prophet, we are afflicted. Then he blessed them and took out His knife and lay open their sores. Calex i pundendem hoy , my children. 'Secrecy makes for a long life,' as it says in the Jarcon ."
 If he dies of old age, that means he will not be rewarded when he passes
 He's grumbling because he hates his job and knows he doesn't want to do it forever  Only the most important members of the society die of old age and he does not want that responsibility  If he dies of old age, that means he will not be rewarded when he passes  If he dies of old age, that means he'll be around without a lot of his friends, and he doesn't want that