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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not OP and I am a woman but I coincidentally have the same plan to be gone around 75. My kid will be 40 and hopefully my grandkid(s) past preschool years, and I don’t think I’ll be able to help out with babysitting so much anyway. My plan to carry it out is either a Swiss clinic with assisted suicide, or taking a bottle of vodka into the winter woods with me. [/quote]
That’s insane.  I know lots of 75 year olds that are in great shape and enjoying life.  Why don’t you wait until you really start to fail?  Societal hatred of the elderly is presumably driving a lot of these comments.[/quote]

Most people I know who are 75+ are sure enjoying life but they are already starting to feel the gravity so to speak and becoming a burden on their kids in one way or another. My sample is probably skewed but I have no guarantee I won’t be like them. They are delusional considering themselves independent but their kids don’t have much but obligation towards them or some use them for benefits. 
[b]And no I don’t think society hates the elderly.[/b] I think it glorifies the old age and puts longevity above all else, at the expense of younger generations who need room to breathe. [/quote]

Remember COVID? [/quote]

That was exactly my point, they favored the elderly above all else. [/quote]

Who is “they?”

And in actuality, millions of parents screamed for two years that their kids being in physical buildings was more important than the lives of “people who were going to die soon anyway.” Don’t even deny it. Take a stroll down memory lane by searching posts in the schools forums on DCUM in 2020.[/quote]

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