My MacBook Pro starting freezing and shutting down recently, anyone experiencing the same....any suggestions on how to fix? It's an older MacBook I purchased in Jan 2011....thks!

My MacBook recently started shutting down suddenly, either while I am using it or right when I boot it up.....has anyone expereinced a similar problem and does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix or what may be causing it?
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These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
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from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
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from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
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For example, if the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down for three minutes before you forced a restart, post the messages timestamped within three minutes before the boot time, not after. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract—not at the beginning.
If there are long runs of repeated messages, please post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
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(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
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from the menu bar.
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I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
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