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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same thing that happens to wealthy childless people, OP.  [/quote]

[b]Except they have money to hire a caregiver or live in a nice assisted living apartment.[/b]

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I've had friends who basically had to force their parents into assisted living, because their parents insisted they could live on their own (although they couldn't).  What if a wealthy childless person waited too long to look for assisted living, and by the time they absolutely needed it, they didn't have the mental facilities to go about doing it.  I have to assume this is not uncommon.  Are these people who usually just end up dying in their home in their 80's through a fall or not taking care of their medical conditions. [b] I wonder if it is even very common for childless people to make it past their late 80's.[/b] [/quote]

Apparently childless people do die earlier
https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/27/parents-having-children-live-longer/
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