  Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic
scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented whose history is
indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM)
universe, but whose future is very much shorter. For sensible values of the
deceleration parameter (0<q_0<1), its age is greater than 85% of the Hubble
time, thus resolving the current version of the age crisis, which appears
(appeared) to be that t_0 ~ H_0 while q_0 is significantly positive.
