I know it's late but I'm recently rewatching the series. I would say the whole bacon in his age thing was more of a homage to the life he ruined, trying to recapture bits of a happier time. But you could also so since he ruined his family's life after being outed as Heisenberg he symbolically killed his wife by ruing her life,the orignal and normal Skyler we've all come to know is dead, reducing her to Heisenberg's criminal empire co-conspirator wife.