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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because you have young kids now and feel you are old and busted, you want all of society to avoid your mistake? There is something seriously wrong with your thinking. [b]I definitely don’t want my DD having kids until she gets to enjoy her own life first. [/quote][/b]

Yeah but if everyone does this, then no one gets to know their grandkids and vice versa.  And lots of adults in their 40s-50's end up losing their parents - my own parents were in their 60's when their parents started dying.  You have to wonder whether it's worth the trade off.  Isn't it really family and relationships that life is all about?[/quote]

I dunno,[b] people are living longer these days and are healthier at older ages.  [/b]Some people suggest the healthiest boomers could potentially live up to 120.  My dad in particular is freaking out about saving enough for retirement because his grandmother lived until 100 between those genes, modern medicine and his pretty healthy, active lifestyle, he'll probably live for a while.[/quote]

Yeah — I’m not seeing that. I’m seeing people in their 40’s and 50’s dropping like flies from terrible cancers . Our environment is filled with carcinogenic crap thanks to capitalism and I don’t see this abating anytime soon.[/quote]

Dropping like flies? Sounds like you need to call the experts :shock: [/quote]
I don’t think that most people in this age group are “dropping like flies.” I think that this PP once posted on a job thread that someone shouldn’t go back to school in their 50s because all of PPs friends were dying by that age and therefore we should all expect to too. [/quote]

Maybe they are trying to get away from her.[/quote]

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