Generalized pain in the elderly is not a sign of pre-mortality. Although there are many elderly people who may experience generalized pain before they die due to a range of serious illnesses, there are many other causes of generalized pain. Some of the common causes are as follows: First, osteoporosis may occur. If a patient suffers from severe osteoporosis, it will often cause bony pain in multiple places throughout the body. Such patients often have weakness and immobility of the limbs, but there is no life-threatening situation; second, there may be some joint inflammation involving multiple parts of the body. For example, when patients have rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis, they may have similar symptoms, but they are not fatal; third, they may have tumors involving multiple parts of the body. If the patient is in the advanced stage of tumor, then it may lead to pain in multiple places in the whole body due to the metastasis of tumor. At this time, the patient may have a life-threatening condition in a short period of time.