Do you want to live a long life?

[Pantisocrat]

Originally Posted by imschatz

The day I can no longer golf or catch a football game .. I'm out.

Don't you mean soccer?

 

[imschatz]

Originally Posted by Pantisocrat

Don't you mean soccer?
No .. American football (well actually Canadian football, but I don't mind American football either).

 

[acidboy]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

^This is a great goal. I am lucky enough to have seen 3 of the RubeBabes hit adulthood; just one teenager remains.

I also have two grandsons to enjoy, and hope I get the time to see more born and grow. But as I said, both of my parents died young, and I sort of feel like I am already in the bonus round.

I seriously hope you still got plenty of gas in the tank but if you were to go, God forbid, I bet its gonna be in a blaze of glory... involving a liquor store.

 

[JayJay]

As long as I'm enjoying being alive. When I don't enjoy it any longer, then it's time for the benediction.

 

[ektaylor]

I'm getting frozen. Children be damned, their inheritance is paying daddy's cryogenics bill.

 

[clubman]

Originally Posted by ektaylor

I'm getting frozen. Children be damned, their inheritance is paying daddy's cryogenics bill.

Many people are living on to be crippled old crocks with no enjoyment in life. This results from all the careful living pushed at us by the health freaks. The result is that they live on for maybe 15 to 20 years beyond having any pleasure in life and they become burdens on society. Far better to smoke and drink yourself to pop your clogs while still a relatively lively 75 year old than end up dribbling (from both ends) at 95.

 

[globetrotter]

my grandfather told me something interesting when he ws about85 - he said that when he was younger he didn't want to grow old, he thought that it would be better to die before he got too old. now that he was old, he wasn't in any hurry to die.

I get a lot of enjoyment out of life. I will enjoy life, even when I am old. my 4 grandparents all lived past their mid eighties, with the men making it to their nighties. all of them smoked. I should make it at least that long

 

[derekzee]

Originally Posted by skinnyman

By long I mean to the point that you have to depend on others to move around, run errands, cook for you, meet your basic needs, etc.

i live like this right now!

hopefully my grandparents will realize this and leave me with a larger chunk of money.

i imagine sf ballers to be going on cruises of some sort and wearing fur when they're auld. maybe some of them are already there.

 

[IUtoSLU]

I don't want to live to the point where I have to be taken care of like a child/baby. I think 75 is good and old. Of course, when I'm 74 I'm sure 90 will sound good.

 

[Don Carlos]

A great deal of recent medical/scientific evidence is suggesting that our common expectations of feebleness and dementia in old age are not necessarily inevitable. Rather, they are effects of idleness after retirement.

If you want to stay sharp and able bodied into old age, physical and mental exercise are key. Some sort of brain-taxing hobby or occupation is key. The point is, when you let yourself get lazy, everything goes to ****. So seriously reconsider an idle retirement if you're planning to go the distance.

Eventually, something like heart failure or miscellaneous organ failure or cancer will get you. But you don't have to spend those last few years or decades as an "out of it" mess.

 

[JetBlast]

If I could die now I would take that option.

OPTIMISM FTW

 

[Pantisocrat]

Originally Posted by globetrotter

my grandfather told me something interesting when he ws about85 - he said that when he was younger he didn't want to grow old, he thought that it would be better to die before he got too old. now that he was old, he wasn't in any hurry to die. I get a lot of enjoyment out of life. I will enjoy life, even when I am old. my 4 grandparents all lived past their mid eighties, with the men making it to their nighties. all of them smoked. I should make it at least that long
Consider yourself lucky. None of my folks lived pass 40. Too many revolutionaries in my family. I don't know if this is true or not but conservatives at least on appearance seem to live a wee bit longer.

 

[ektaylor]

Originally Posted by clubman

Many people are living on to be crippled old crocks with no enjoyment in life. This results from all the careful living pushed at us by the health freaks. The result is that they live on for maybe 15 to 20 years beyond having any pleasure in life and they become burdens on society. Far better to smoke and drink yourself to pop your clogs while still a relatively lively 75 year old than end up dribbling (from both ends) at 95.

You sound like my pretend child trying to talk me about of spending everything on nitroglycerin. I want to be a hindrance to society as long as possible, and when I can't do that any longer my frozen corpse will have to take over. You guys should all get on some immortality stack. ImmIns will help you out. If you aren't swallowing 10 different kinds of terribly bitter powders (to avoid the kidney damage all those capsules and binders will levy) in the morning, you aren't trying hard enough.

 

[leftover_salmon]

Dead at 60 would be ideal.

 

[Sherlockian]

Having witnessed the terrible decline, physically and mentally, of two of my grandparents, the answer is no, absolutely not. There gets a point where a person may be merely existing, rather than "living". I'd rather not reach that stage, thankyou very much, as it must suck for you, and I know for sure it sucks for your surviving family members.