 What is the first mate trying to express when he says "You all want me ta die uv old age"?
I "I don't see why we have to be here," a crewman said. An' iffen I aims ta talk...." The crewman to his left bent over and whispered, "I'll bet he's gonna tell us it's gonna be another postponement." And then, more loudly, "Men!" Then he blessed them and took out His knife and lay open their sores. 'Secrecy makes for a long life,' as it says in the Jarcon ." You are thinking: 'What a fine thing—ah, what a good thing, that is—ah, how nice it would be to have the Casting Off at home, among friends.'" While they were still cheering and stomping and otherwise expressing their enthusiasm and approval, Nestir walked off the speaker's platform and into the officer's corridor. He nodded curtly to the officers when he entered the mess hall, walked directly to his place at the head of the table, sat down and morosely began to work the cork out of his wine bottle with his teeth. "You'll spoil the flavor, shaking it that way," the third mate cautioned. When the third mate saw that his opinion on the wine was not immediately to be justified, he settled back in his chair with a little sigh of disapproval. The whole issue involves, as a core point, the principle of casta cum mae stotiti ." "But it was a case of obvious intent ," continued Nestir, "and therefore constituted a clear out attempt to avoid his duty by hastening to his Reward." "That," he said to Nestir, "my dear Father, is the cardinal point of the whole game, y'know." After all, it's not only a question of how we go, but also a question of leaving only after having done our duty. Anticipation can be a joy, y'know: almost equal to the very Reward. The second mate had been trying to get a word in edgewise for several minutes; he finally succeeded by utilizing the temporary silence following the captain's outburst. The captain was not visibly cheered; he was still brooding about the sad absence of a sense of duty on the part of Nestir. "I don't know," the second mate's wife said, "whether you better count on my husband or not. "This problem of Carstar interests me," the third mate said. "He probably wouldn't have lived, anyway," the third mate said.
 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