LOS ANGELES, July 2 -- Angelina Jolie does not plan for old age. She has said so plainly, in an interview tied to her new film "Couture," and the way she said it left little room to read it as a passing mood rather than a governing fact of how she has raised six children.

"I raise my kids almost preparing them for my absence and not as much preparing to be a grandmother," Jolie said, according to Variety. "That's what happens when you consider death as a reality." She traced the instinct back to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of breast and ovarian cancer at 56, and a grandmother she never met, who died of ovarian cancer at 45. "I have never lived feeling like I'm going to have a long life," Jolie said. "I'm already past the ag...