Originally Posted by Bearcat:
I've always thought, despite so many people who say 80+ years isn't enough and life is short, that I'd be ready to die at that point.... I might change my mind if I get there, but thinking I'm not even halfway to 90 is kind of mind boggling.
Deep down I'd like to out live my wife so she doesn't have to die alone. Problem is she's a mix of Native/Mexican and Irish. If the Native/Mexican genes take over her two grandmother's lived beyond 100.
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
It's theoretically palatable to say that you don't want to live to a particularly long age, but once you turn 60 you start rethinking that. As long as I can be healthy, I'm perfectly fine reading and watching television by myself.
Yeah, personally I really want to get to retirement age healthy (and after watching some family health issues at that age, have taken some steps to help make that happen), and then wonder how much you can cram into that part of your life... my grandfather traveled all over the world after retirement, then had a relatively short time where he wasn't nearly as mobile and had a couple long stays in hospitals due to relatively simple issues that just took a bit to recover from at his age (and live to 94).
I've heard financial people call it your 'go-go years' when you first retire, then your 'some-go' years, then 'no-go' years.... a decade of no-go currently sounds like a no-go for me, but maybe we'll be watching Mahomes' grandkids winning Super Bowls for the Kansas Chiefs in the International Football League. [Reply]
If only the good die young, guess I'll live to be 150 or so....Karma. Dad is 88 and was doing fine until he fell and broke his hip and collarbone. Moms been gone for 5 years now and she was the health-nut while dad smokes non-filtered cigs and smokes 2 packs a day for 68 years. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Smed1065:
If only the good die young, guess I'll live to be 150 or so....Karma. Dad is 88 and was doing fine until he fell and broke his hip and collarbone. Moms been gone for 5 years now and she was the health-nut while dad smokes non-filtered cigs and smokes 2 packs a day for 68 years.
Watch your dad closely. Elderly people breaking a hip is usually a bad sign of things to come. Lot of them die a few years after that [Reply]
Originally Posted by Smed1065:
If only the good die young, guess I'll live to be 150 or so....Karma. Dad is 88 and was doing fine until he fell and broke his hip and collarbone. Moms been gone for 5 years now and she was the health-nut while dad smokes non-filtered cigs and smokes 2 packs a day for 68 years.
This. You can’t fight genetics. Live your life and pray you die in your sleep. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
My wife’s great grandmother lived to 103 and at the end she hated every minute of it. At about 85 she had become the last of her friends and recent family she knew growing up.
By 95 she was depressed and just wanted to die. The closest people to her in the Senior facility that weren’t living vegetables were in their 70’s that she didn’t have anything in common due to age gap so she felt lonely all the time.