Middle age people are dropping like flies

[Anonymous]

Yes, I’ve known quite a few 50s to 60s dying of hemorrhagic strokes and cancers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50 and 60 is not middle age!!!!

Average life expectancy is 76 for men and 81 for women. Therfore, middle age is 36-40 for men and 38-42 for women. 50 and 60 is older than that.

Eh, I have lots of friends who just lost their parents. They were late 60s early 70s. People are able to live longer.

Unless they're anticipating living to between 120 and 138 years old, people in their 60s are NOT middle age.

In your 50s, OK. But that's stretching it toward the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone else has posted here about how caring for an elderly parent will destroy your own health. Were the people in your circle who have passed caregivers of an elderly parent?

It has impacted me and another sibling for certain.

I’m definitely falling apart from elderly caregiving and I’m early 40s.

[Anonymous]

Life expectancy is going down in the US. People are dying younger. I have noticed an uptick in the past few years. Some were Covid related, a few brain tumors, cancer, heart problems. It's real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50 and 60 is not middle age!!!!

Average life expectancy is 76 for men and 81 for women. Therfore, middle age is 36-40 for men and 38-42 for women. 50 and 60 is older than that.

Eh, I have lots of friends who just lost their parents. They were late 60s early 70s. People are able to live longer.

Unless they're anticipating living to between 120 and 138 years old, people in their 60s are NOT middle age.

In your 50s, OK. But that's stretching it toward the end.

Wrong, 45-65 is middle age. After 65 is old age.

[Anonymous]

Yes, a friends brother just unexpectedly died in his sleep in his 50s. Second person I know dying like this this year. Covid is not as benign as some people want it to appear, especially for people in the 45-65 age group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, a friends brother just unexpectedly died in his sleep in his 50s. Second person I know dying like this this year. Covid is not as benign as some people want it to appear, especially for people in the 45-65 age group.

I have noticed that too. Months after Covid, they took a drastic sudden turn.

[Anonymous]

The ones I know who have died early (40-60), died of cancer or complications of type 1 diabetes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 80+ yr old mom battled cancer and all of her caregiving children including me (late 50s to mid 60s) have aged 10 years while looking after her for just 2-3 months. Her illness was so harrowing that I felt that I was in a nightmare and going through a heart attack myself and she needed intensive care. Its been months but I have not recovered. It was my own tipping point.

I’m so sorry. What a disturbing post. At 80 years, wouldn’t palliative care and pain meds as needed be better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 80+ yr old mom battled cancer and all of her caregiving children including me (late 50s to mid 60s) have aged 10 years while looking after her for just 2-3 months. Her illness was so harrowing that I felt that I was in a nightmare and going through a heart attack myself and she needed intensive care. Its been months but I have not recovered. It was my own tipping point.

I’m so sorry. What a disturbing post. At 80 years, wouldn’t palliative care and pain meds as needed be better?

Palliative care is a necessity. Caregiving stress can ruin your health. Been there. Done it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50 and 60 is not middle age!!!!

Average life expectancy is 76 for men and 81 for women. Therfore, middle age is 36-40 for men and 38-42 for women. 50 and 60 is older than that.

No, that math is off because you are counting childhood. Middle indicates the middle of your adult life. So basically 20 years of childhood, then 60 years of adulthood split into 3 segments -- young adult, middle age, elderly. 20-40 is young adult, 40-60 is middle aged, 60 to 80 is elderly.
Realistically ,everyone in my family lives past 90, though, so I don't know if I should adjust those numbers, because people don't really seem elderly to me until 70 or at least late 60s. I mean, would you look at Julia Louis Dreyfuss and Steve Carrell and say that they are "elderly"? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today, if you've lived a relatively healthy life, 60 is still considered way too young to die. My grandfather died at 60, but in medical parlance and lifestyle, that was eons ago.

All my friends with cancer have survived so far due to medical advances.

Wishing everyone the best of health.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50 and 60 is not middle age!!!!

Average life expectancy is 76 for men and 81 for women. Therfore, middle age is 36-40 for men and 38-42 for women. 50 and 60 is older than that.

No, that math is off because you are counting childhood. Middle indicates the middle of your adult life. So basically 20 years of childhood, then 60 years of adulthood split into 3 segments -- young adult, middle age, elderly. 20-40 is young adult, 40-60 is middle aged, 60 to 80 is elderly.
Realistically ,everyone in my family lives past 90, though, so I don't know if I should adjust those numbers, because people don't really seem elderly to me until 70 or at least late 60s. I mean, would you look at Julia Louis Dreyfuss and Steve Carrell and say that they are "elderly"? No.

NP. Never heard or explained this way but makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, a friends brother just unexpectedly died in his sleep in his 50s. Second person I know dying like this this year. Covid is not as benign as some people want it to appear, especially for people in the 45-65 age group.

But was there a dx after death from an autopsy? We can't only just blame covid.

[Anonymous]

That’s not middle age. It might feel like it because you are there, but most people don’t make 80. So, middle age is more like 25-50