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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is living too long.
People are dying too long.

100%

Exactly. It’s a huge effort to take care of your health the way you need to live well for your whole life. But if you focus on what you want to be able to do at 90 - play with grandkids, hike, swim, ski, walk your active dog - then you can work backwards from there and figure out what you need to do to get there. Which is basically cardio, weights, good food, strong relationships.

We don’t have to age the way our parents are. That’s a totally different model of aging and we know better now.

That’s how long I want to live: 75 years.

This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can’t mean what I say; that I haven’t thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and do. To convince me of my errors, they enumerate the myriad people I know who are over 75 and doing quite well. They are certain that as I get closer to 75, I will push the desired age back to 80, then 85, maybe even 90.

That’s how long I want to live: 75 years.

This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can’t mean what I say; that I haven’t thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and do. To convince me of my errors, they enumerate the myriad people I know who are over 75 and doing quite well. They are certain that as I get closer to 75, I will push the desired age back to 80, then 85, maybe even 90.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hope that by the time I get to 80 there will be options like they have in Switzerland now. I would love to go at 80 at the latest.

This is my plan. I’m 48, single and childless. I plan to go to Switzerland when I’m 70-75. I don’t need to live past that. I don’t want to not be able to care for myself and I want to leave on my own terms. Honestly even at 70, I’ll be happy to go.

I know a lot of very healthy and happy 70 year olds!

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Anonymous wrote:I have watched 3 parents/in laws have long agonizing deaths involving years (in two cases) of bedrest. It is a miserable existence. I will not take any meds after the age of 85 - I hope I go quickly.

But the thing is that unless you get an aggressive illness you probably won’t go quickly. And if you don’t take any medications at all, you’ll probably be in pain and miserable during your long, drawn out old age.

I don’t want to be old either and I hope to never be a burden on my kids or spouse in old age but it’s not like any of us get to decide when we die (unless we kill ourselves)

Good point! I was just venting honestly and understand that I have the genes to live a long time and doing so incapacitated for years at the end is my greatest fear. Maybe I should start smoking.

You jest, but my grandfather started smoking again in his 70s after quitting years before.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hope that by the time I get to 80 there will be options like they have in Switzerland now. I would love to go at 80 at the latest.

This is my plan. I’m 48, single and childless. I plan to go to Switzerland when I’m 70-75. I don’t need to live past that. I don’t want to not be able to care for myself and I want to leave on my own terms. Honestly even at 70, I’ll be happy to go.

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Anonymous wrote:I think human lives should have auto combustion at 80. I'm by no means saying people should just jump or pushed of the cliff but its a pain for self and a drain on others. Imaging being an elderly who can sense they are no longer wanted. Its just so sad.

I agree with you somewhat. I would prefer it to be an optional feature but then we’re back to the tricky topic of euthanizing oneself. Will have to think about that one.

Anonymous wrote:My moms older cousin from California I visited at her vacation home in Ireland two years ago. She was 104. She flew California to Ireland. I was at her house and she was getting room painted and yard cleaned up and arranging with her caregiver to take care of it till her next visit.

Sadly like three months later at home in California she caught a bad flu or RSV and she died a few days later.

She was born around 1898 and she gave some great stories and stories she heard around fire from grandparents details about the 1847 Potato Famine.

Living long is great but be healthy

Anonymous wrote:I really hope that by the time I get to 80 there will be options like they have in Switzerland now. I would love to go at 80 at the latest.

Anonymous wrote:My moms older cousin from California I visited at her vacation home in Ireland two years ago. She was 104. She flew California to Ireland. I was at her house and she was getting room painted and yard cleaned up and arranging with her caregiver to take care of it till her next visit.

Sadly like three months later at home in California she caught a bad flu or RSV and she died a few days later.

She was born around 1898 and she gave some great stories and stories she heard around fire from grandparents details about the 1847 Potato Famine.

Living long is great but be healthy

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Anonymous wrote:Retirement was designed to be 8 years after 65 then you die around 73, now boomers are retiring at 65 and taking 25 years to die, where do you think the money comes from? Their children's future and current earnings.

Boomers have pensions

+1

And their husbands pensions and benefits, some outstanding (and better benefits than those who worked full time, all their lives) even if the wife hardly worked.

Anonymous wrote:I think human lives should have auto combustion at 80. I'm by no means saying people should just jump or pushed of the cliff but its a pain for self and a drain on others. Imaging being an elderly who can sense they are no longer wanted. Its just so sad.